I was recently held up in absolute dead stop traffic. We were sitting on the tarmac with no movement for well over an hour, in the 80 degree sun, before I felt obliged to leave my car and go see if it was because of roadwork or an accident or what.
I joined a small crowd of onlookers after reaching the head, spectating a row of sit-in protesters. One driver had tried to get around but a few protesters moved tactically so that he couldn’t go any further without injuring somebody.
I didn’t wait around, although there were people phoning the police and some tempers beginning to flare. So I head back to my car. The dairy groceries that I picked up on the way back from work had begun to spoil.
I was late home by nearly three hours, so no time to unwind. Just enough to pack away some old leftovers before heading off to sleep and restart cycle all over, -1 hour or so of sleep.
Previously, I had no opinion whatsoever on whether cars=good or cars=bad. But after being held up in traffic, wasting money, wasting gas, losing sleep and perhaps a bit of my sanity I am now totally on board with the Fuck Cars movement. I couldn’t imagine a more convincing strategy to bring people over to your perspective. Excellent thinking. Good job.
are you sure that they were protesting “because cars exist” ? I’m sure they had another motive and you’re trying hard to ignore their reasons just to rant about cars
Yeah, I’m real motivated now to hear out their reasoning.
Maybe if they physically assaulted me and then asked “Hey, do you care to know the reasons behind why we just assaulted you?”. Same logic.
3 hours ago you wrote this comment 👆
you were right.
I mean you’ve spent a fuck of a lot of energy complaining about it. And you clearly have some strong preconceptions what you are angry about. But it turns out, you don’t even know what the fuck you’re angry about. Go take a bath, dude. Get your head on right, because you’re making a fool of yourself.