Artist. Formally /u/1831942.

  • 35 Posts
  • 511 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 15th, 2023

help-circle


  • Lol, this brought me back to when I worked at a retirement home.

    We had one gentleman who was 100+.

    I realized he was old enough to have known civil war veterans.

    I asked him if he’d ever met a civil war vet. He thought I’d asked him if he’d fought in the civil war, lmao.

    Eventually, he told me he only ever saw them in parades.

    I felt a little nervous to ask who was in the parade.

    He was very proud to say, “The good guys, obviously. It was New York.”

    I got to know him more over time and learned that he was super progressive and loved to use the internet. It’s cool to know there’s a few good apples every once in a while.






















  • I don’t want to think about it too much. I’ll keep it quick:

    Random person dying on the back of the bus. Someone threatening the bus driver over a lack of bus fair (too the point of fighting the bus driver with hands). Someone fighting someone for a seat, and they miss a punch and hit an old lady. I think you’re full of shit. Public transportation is highly contextual. I want more, and I want it to be safe. I want it to be free to people regardless of background. Again, I’m talking socal.

    My worst one was getting chased down and then getting mugged at the bus stop. The second worst was keeping someone from attacking my partner while I tried to talk them down. I know it’s anecdotal, that’s why I said “1/10, but I’m not sure.” That was my main form of transportation for about 5 years. I believe it was called an “M-pass,”.

    I try not to think about it because when people do those things, I want to forgive them. It fucking hurts. We need more public transportation, but I won’t romanticize it. We need to make it safer for possible victims, just like what we need to do with Uber and Lyft.