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Some time ago I was standing chatting next to my vehicle in a parking lot. This was in college. About 50-60ft away was one of the lot entrances. Not too steep, though one of those that will catch a lower car if it doesn't come in carefully. Anyway, in comes screaming a Lamborghini. The very expensive sound the bottom of that car made still makes me wish I was recording. Could've turned it into my morning alarm.
I like to think me bursting out laughing still haunts the driver to this day.
Ya know, this is a good argument for all cars to be cartoonishly oversized. That way they can only be used when absolutely needed.
Or of course the car lobby will just push to make all the infrastructure fit around the giant gas guzzlers.
Fuck oversized trucks. That lady deserved to have you - and everyone else - laugh in her stupid face.
You wouldn't laugh at a fat guy going to the gym.
The lady is cycling to work each morning. The initial impetus might have been bad, but she's doing a lot better than most people. Once she gets into the habit of cycling, she's a lot less likely to stop than if she's laughed at for it. It might also help her realise the truck isn't worth the hassle.
I haven't seen it that way, but you're right actually. Good for her that she saw reason and is now using a bike.
Lmao
Youre getting downvoted because you are correct.
shower rooms at work
Damn, I've spent years commuting by bike and never once had a shower room at work. At one place I had to join the nearby Y and deal with naked, old, fat southern men lounging around on couches in the locker room every morning making jokes about imprisoning black men for life.
This sounds familiar af... Pensacola?
Close enough - Shreveport, Louisiana. This Y was where all the judges and prosecutors (and the defense attorneys as well, of course) from the courthouse hung out. I kinda wish I hadn't told this story because now I can't those locker room images out of my head. So much overfed, droopy white flesh covered in gray hair.
My favorite thing about this Y was that they still had a bunch of those motorized fat-shaker belts from the 1930s or whenever on the top floor - and this wasn't even quite 20 years ago.
Ha! It was kinda the same for pcola except all the bureaucrats in Pensacola had to share the Y with the uptown gays until they built a new one downtown. Lots of wild stories from that place, including shower room assaults.
all the bureaucrats in Pensacola had to share the Y with the uptown gays
So, I was friends with a lot of the gay community in Shreveport. Let's just say that I don't think the fat old white racist servants of the justice system in Louisiana had any problem sharing the Y with the gays. I was strongly advised to avoid the steam room there.
Oh yeah kinda why I mentioned it. I know a dude that took great pleasure in visiting that Y and literally moved shortly after the downtown Y was built 😂
And then the whole shower room got up and clapped.
