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Sometimes I really don't think I have the emotional strength to live in LA.
This whole week, this whole week has been horrible.
But truly, the icing on the cake wasn't almost being hit 3 separate times by cars while walking across the street, all times with valid crossing signals in a less than 10 minute period. It wasn't the creepy fucking guy following me around saying annoying things. It wasn't yelling at the guy that turned left, almost hitting myself and another pedestrian because he clearly was only looking for cars and not for pedestrians. It was biking home, on the sidewalk, on a street with bumper to bumper traffic, partially due to a weekly "car show" at a restaurant and being told by a pedestrian "you aren't allowed to bike here. if there was an old lady here you'd knock her down"
I am fucking tired of this city. I am so fucking tired of people and their goddamn cars. Why don't you accuse me of something I really did instead of making up fantasy stories where I mow down pedestrians on the sidewalks and in intersections ON MY BIKE. I am so fucking tired of excuse after excuse of being so land poor that there can't be affordable housing, dedicated space for public transportation, bike lanes or parks. LOOK AT YOUR FUCKING SELF AND YOUR CAR! YOU LIVE IN THE SECOND LARGEST CITY IN THE COUNTRY AND THE CITY WITH THE WORST AIR QUALITY THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EVERY YEAR AND HURTING COUNTLESS OTHERS. WHEN WILL YOU PULL YOUR FUCKING HEAD FAR ENOUGH OUT OF YOUR ASS TO SEE WHAT IS AROUND YOU?????????????????????????????
This whole week, this whole week has been horrible.
But truly, the icing on the cake wasn't almost being hit 3 separate times by cars while walking across the street, all times with valid crossing signals in a less than 10 minute period. It wasn't the creepy fucking guy following me around saying annoying things. It wasn't yelling at the guy that turned left, almost hitting myself and another pedestrian because he clearly was only looking for cars and not for pedestrians. It was biking home, on the sidewalk, on a street with bumper to bumper traffic, partially due to a weekly "car show" at a restaurant and being told by a pedestrian "you aren't allowed to bike here. if there was an old lady here you'd knock her down"
I am fucking tired of this city. I am so fucking tired of people and their goddamn cars. Why don't you accuse me of something I really did instead of making up fantasy stories where I mow down pedestrians on the sidewalks and in intersections ON MY BIKE. I am so fucking tired of excuse after excuse of being so land poor that there can't be affordable housing, dedicated space for public transportation, bike lanes or parks. LOOK AT YOUR FUCKING SELF AND YOUR CAR! YOU LIVE IN THE SECOND LARGEST CITY IN THE COUNTRY AND THE CITY WITH THE WORST AIR QUALITY THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EVERY YEAR AND HURTING COUNTLESS OTHERS. WHEN WILL YOU PULL YOUR FUCKING HEAD FAR ENOUGH OUT OF YOUR ASS TO SEE WHAT IS AROUND YOU?????????????????????????????