Message from @GingaBomber
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Long story. Helping a family member. Got a job. Got stable up there. Liked the city, even though I didn't like the politics.
Jesus. And I used to hear tales of san fran
I didn't have a driver's license until a couple years ago. I've always liked the big city, because it's bikeable.
Even when I worked in Dallas, I had always rehearsed self defense with my bike lock, if necessary.
Kind of a bike courier thing to do.
Thats a thing? Using a bikelock specifically?
I mean, I was doing that before Eric Clanton used one.
Yeah, I got attacked by a group of 'youths'. There had been a rash of attacks on the Metro, people getting attacked by groups of kids basically playing the Knockout game.
Well, I was apparently one of the contestants in this game. I was on a pizza delivery, working late Christmas eve for a bonus with Postmates
group of black kids walking up from the station from Chinatown on H street (actual H street, not the H street that's actually F street where the Spy Museum is, though you still get to Chinatown Station from across the street from that museum....)
Ironically, if I had've seen them and chosen to cross the street, I wouldn't have gotten attacked.
but instead, I thought nothing of it, figured they'll go their way, I'll go mine
Youd be called racist lol
I mean, sure. if I recounted it that way.
Sorry I shoudnt be finding that funny
I find it funny, too.
Id cross the street if I saw a group of youths
I think it's funny when people talk about microaggressions like that
knowing that microaggression would've spared me a somewhat traumatic experience.
Dude its easy being virtuous about something that does not affect you personally
basically, one of them made a hoot right behind me to get my attention, they had circled me. One of the guys that was behind me swung at me
I caught the movement coming from my right side and moved with it.
Like that one who refused to report her rape
oh, first someone knocked the pizza that I was carrying for a delivery out of my hands.
then someone swung
Forgot about the pizza.
waste of a damn ~~Goodfellas~~ Wiseguys pizza.
(You can google these locations to figure out where it happened, lol)
Excuse me! I was wrong!
It was Wiseguys. Goodfellas is a Dallas restaurant.
Jesus those names are synonyms
Yeah. I know.
ha
Fuck me for following my instincts yeah?
I avoid groups of youths, not blacks.
If it were a group of black elderly men id stick to my path.
From that point forward, I was incredibly nervous about anyone passing me for a while.
I still generally carry a gun or a knife in my car with me, out of sight.
As a pizza deliveryman are you allowed to be armed on the job?
I treat it as don't ask, don't tell.