Thursday, July 9, 2015

damned unpleasant

It's not pleasant to walk along a busy roadway, with cars screaming past.  An occasional motorcycle has ear-splitting sounds.  Some cars, too, seem to behave as if the driver thought he were in a race.  The sound, the speed, the stupidity of it all makes me want to retreat to a place far from what is so misleadingly called 'civilization'.

Then the bicyclists are impatient.  Ridiculous!  Some even have little bells.  What the hell does that mean?  Get out of my way!?  Why?  Why can't you slow down?  Twits!  Impudent jerks!

Sidewalks crowded in the most unpleasant way.  Waiting for a bus, bicycles come speeding. You must step aside or risk collision.  Worst of all, when the bus is about to arrive, and you see a speeding bicyclist coming towards you, you must calculate: can you safely maneuver to the bus door without a collision?  Because you cannot count upon the asshole  bicyclist to slow down or make room for you.

And then there are the rotund pairs, strutting amiably in the middle of the sidewalk, oblivious to the world around them.....unaware that a bicycle is approaching.

Let the two fatties crowd the sidewalk at the same time two bicycles approach, from either distance, and then try to cross the sidewalk to reach your bus!  That's the sort of joy I enjoy in this place which dares to call itself a city.


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