Dealing with
Adversity
Contemporary
stories
We have to deal with adversity on a regular
basis. If we drive a car, we need to cope with aggressive, careless motorists.
Indeed, it can even be worse if one is cycling,
as I am, after I drive and drop my daughter at the Lycee Francais, where I park
my pickup truck and get on the bike to reach downtown, through some heavy
traffic.
Fortunately, the majority of drivers do not
have a problem with cyclists.
However, one is enough to send the biker to the
hospital or even worse, never mind the tens that still treat a bike as an awkward,
medieval object.
Especially on one of the avenues, Kisseleff, I have
to Cope with the Adversity of women (Why??) and men drivers.
Even if the sidewalk is the place where many
cars are parked (!!), there are no fewer than four lanes, the riding of bikes
on the sidewalk in that area is disputed and the angry drivers have no problem
breaking the law, speeding, talking on the phone and chauffeuring, still, they
are mad to see someone cycling alongside:
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How
could this be??!
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Get
the fuck out of here!
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Use
the sidewalk imbecile!
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Fuck
you, idiot!
That is the
jest of it.
True, there are some yellow signs, which have
been worn off for the most part, are anyway mostly occupied by cars, have been
considered illegal from the very beginning, but they gave the impression anyway
to many drivers that this is where cyclists belong.
Someone was telling me about the Highway built
in Holland for the men and women using the bicycle as means of transportation.
The bicycle is not something special anymore,
in civilized, advanced countries of the world.
Not to mention China.
Nevertheless, in my land, it is still strange
to witness an attitude that is so retrograde, backward and arrogant.
It is like:
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You
do not have enough money to get a car, like me!
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Poor,
inferior being!
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I
can throw you to the ground anytime!
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Care
for you and your goddamn two-wheeler…are you shiting me?!
Strange and regrettable is the attitude of many
women drivers.
This is where it could sound sexist for some.
However, I think it is the opposite:
-women are so much more sensitive, their EQ is generally
so much higher than men’s are, with their tendency to be much more violent.
- On the whole, I see women as superior in most
of the ways that count in the modern world- this is my view.
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Alas,
this means I have Great Expectations
In addition, when a woman driver acts like a
man- violent, careless, aggressive, abusive and outright dangerous- I am really
pissed off.
And reminded of a fragment in Louis CK’s
standup act:
-people are into wild girls…they show their
tities, etc.
Nevertheless, when Women are wild…they kill
men!
A woman driver from the …French Embassy, no
less, threw me from my bike to the ground!!
Furthermore, instead of expressing some regret,
compassion…
She went on aggressively:
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“Mais,
quoi?!...allez vous…putain…quell bordel…merde”
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Which
is something like – shit, wtf…
Moreover, it was maddening!
Her registration plate??
Well, at the time it was a temporary thing with
many numbers.
However, she replaced that soon and I could see
her at the French Lycee
It is:
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126
CD 03!!
This means she is a big shot or the wife of a
big shot there
I used to work with the
American, British and other embassies, so I know…
I went to say to her that this was very wrong,
after a few days, in the parking lot of their damn institution…
She was a degree better, no violent verbal
abuse this time.
Overall, she was not sorry
Moreover, I will get more into this kind of
attitude in the next
French Superiority episode of
Dealing with French Adversity
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