Todays travel gear
I used my rollerblades to get to work today. It took me about an hour and a half of heavy panting and continuous leg thrusting, to get there with 30min to spare. Can anybody guess what I did when I got out of work? I rollerbladed all the way back home. It was not my intention to skate back. I was hoping that the trains would be operating by then since there was word that the strike was over but the trains would not be up and running untill morning. I even tried to catch a cab in order to avoid having to ride my blades all the way back. If you live in the city and are Hispanic or just about anybody of color you know just what a challenge such a seemingly easy task could be. These guys would slow down enough to look at my face and then step on the accelerator really fast once they get a good look at me. Some would slow down enough to quote a ridiculously high price. Some wanted as much as forty dollars for what would otherwise have been a 15min-fourteen dollar ride. I was on a corner for close to 30min watching them load the white folks a few hundred feet away instead. I finally decided to blade back home and then tried in vain a bit more to see if any cab driver already on his way over the 59th street Bridge would be willing to take me. After a familiar disappointing spell and some ridiculous flat fee offers of 15-20 dollars for the “service”, my spick-self bladed the remainder of the way. The worst part is that this illegal, racist, and condescending behavior is primarily propagated by people of color.
I am so F-ing tired, of all this traveling these last few days. Not to mention, the bigots that I have met along the way who have made the process of skating much more inviting then hating.
This is what the line of people waiting to get on a private bus-line into queens looked like most of the day.
that sux. Cabbies are the worse...call me racist but I hate Hatian and middle eastern drivers the most!!
But you look so fly in your skating gear.
..."skating more inviting than hating."
I like that
Do not call me anything of the sort but most of my experiences are primarily with the Middle Eastern drivers. A lot of those guys are mean spirited, money hungry, men who do not practice the Allah-blah-blah they preach. $15 to get me across a bridge? NO, THANK YOU! Keep that sh*t up and we’ll see how far along your bad karma meter readings will get. Someone from their local mosque should teach these guys a thing or two about the teachings of the Koran they so identify with. I guarantee that there are no passages where Mohammad or Yusef spoke about selling out the working class to better serve the unidentified oppressor.
When will the caste systems of our making seize to exist?