Post #4233982
2026-05-03 18:13 UTC
Like, it's a bizzare place, bizzare culture, bizzare country. As a kid in Missouri running cross country I'd run around in short shorts a lot. People would call me a faggot and throw coins and water bottles at me out the window of passing cars.
Until I had the bright idea of wearing American flag short shorts. Then people stopped the harassment and started chanting "U-S-A, U-S-A" 😔 it was my insurance powered by nationalism
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@idlestate@toot.cat 2026-05-03 18:24
@kirk@social.coop People follow speed limits when I am driving & they are behind me, because I follow the speed limit almost always now. I mean, they pass when they can. Sometimes they tailgate, which isn't great, but better than that they tailgate at higher speeds! But usually they have no choice but to suck it up because they know a car-car collision will be a bad time for them, however much they may hate me. I don't approach from the perspective of Following The Law so much as making a kind of work-to-rule resistance to all the things that make drivers behave badly.