When I was living in Austin TX I had a full beer thrown at me from a lifted truck. I was just walking, and he screamed “Get a job you homeless piece of shit”. If he was smart enough to get his truck to roll coal he would have done that too. I was pissed. Flipped him off. Full fight mode. Bro pulled into the parking lot of a nearby strip mall but sped off when he realized I was serious about fighting him. I was absolutely serious, and would have died in that parking lot if that was what God willed. Here’s the thing though, I had a car, a nice car, a brand new sports car even. I had a job, a good job, a side hustle, and I was doing drops, which means I was the plug son. I paid rent. By every metric I was not the person he was trying to target. I was just walking to the Planet K that wasn’t even a half-mile from my apartment complex. Normal shit. Walking is a revolutionary act. Because I was walking I was seen as less than, unhuman. It was a deeply radicalizing thing.
I haven’t had a car in over two years. I walk everywhere, dozens of miles a week. Gas prices should be like 11 dollars a gallon, I don’t give a fuck.
No matter who you are, you’re just someone on a bike to these scumbags who cut you off and honk at you despite you’re doing the right thing.
Now imagine actually being homeless and being constantly harassed.
What does “doing drops” mean in this context?
Delivering drugs
Also what is a plug son?
A plug is a drug dealer. They were the plug, son
Sounds like the side hustle is drug related
I was trying to figure that out as well.
Droppin stuf off
Playing Helldivers.
I recently had a confrontation with a motorist passing me unsafely, took a picture of their plate, caught up and gave their bumper a little slap ‘said roadrage kills’ as I passed the window and laughed my ass off as I saw the guy was desperately fumbling with his phone trying to get a pic of me
Incredible
This is the only way to live in the states & not be a worm
thank god I’ve never been
Austin still has a lot of pedestrian friendly areas, mostly between downtown and the UT campus but all the new developments are absolutely car-centric. It sucks.
I read about stuff like this a lot, but it’s never happened to me. So maybe my city is nicer than most, or people here seem to ignore people a lot more.
I have a car (actually a truck), and I choose to use it less. The winters here can get fierce, so I’m not ready to give up on having one, but I rarely use it. I walk or scoot everywhere I go and I’ve never had an issue. So it’s crazy when I see posts like this. What are the hecklers even trying to prove?! lol
