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this topic really gets me irritated:
what is it about being in a car that turns so many otherwise nice folk into dickheads?
i cycle in philadelphia almost year round, and have been nearly killed more times than i can count. narrow busy streets are one problem--but that's part of the game. what is more difficult--because so unpredictable--is the bizarre actions of drivers--running red lights (doing the "philly creep")--jamming you against the curb--throwing shit out of their cars--getting right behind you and gunning their engines, ha ha. busses that take you for a target. add to this horrible, ill-maintained bike lanes, full not only of garbage and glass but also potholes, debris from trying to fix potholes, etc. that force you out into traffic (and into the peril of trolley tracks)...all of which would be fine if people driving cars did not become such jerks so often, simply because they are in a huge metal box and so think they have no contact with (and hence no responsibility for) who and what is around them.
in a better world, there would be no automobile traffic in cities.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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