Thursday, 9 March 2017
Thursday, 2 March 2017
The Perils and Joys of being a Pedestrian in Auckland
It’s almost frowned upon to use ones legs in Auckland to get
from a to b.
Menacing socialites barely able to see over a steering wheel
drive with their
foot to the floor rushing to pick up their trim milk late
while the peasants of the
path graciously hobble along forgotten. We who march upon
the ash felt deem
ourselves lucky beyond all measure if we have the good
fortune to even tread
upon a footpath. Many times I have witnessed tradies in
their working vans
glued to a standstill at a busy traffic intersections. On my
two feet like Achilles
merciless I outstrip them galloping around the corner. It’s
sad to realize how
our main roads, back streets, byways, dead end streets you
name it are
peopled with less and less honest walkers. Ironically one
does tend to see
a rise in exercising lunatics clad in leather jogging pants doing
their very best to
suck in as many exhaust fumes as humanely possible. It
almost makes me
sad as I think about their pristine athletic lungs slowly
being riddled with carbon
monoxide and pollution.
Despite the gloom, something funny happened yesterday as I
was trooping down
the road to a Socialist meeting on the edge of Morningside. While
I was minding
my own business a heavy set leering woman of pakeha descent leaned
out of
her passenger window and said hi. I said hi back while keeping
a steady pace
toward my destination while feeling rather hungry. She asked
me abruptly
“do you want some tits!”. I was rather surprised and taken
aback then quickly
realized this woman was trying to level me for which I
pitied her. Politely I
declined her insincere and venomous offer as I being no fool
saw that her
boyfriend or pimp was driving her about and didn’t want a
part in any tomfoolery
. I then said to the woman in a low tone “I’m good thanks”.
She countered my genuine rejection of her advance by stating
that the current
standing market rate to enjoy the sight of her bumbling breasts
was a pittance
at “30 dollars” although she made her sum sound like a vast aristocratic
fortune.
I dis-regard her quote entirely as I had absolutely no
interest in playing into her
poisoned hand.
The next thing I know the woman’s four wheeled slug of a car
zoomed off into
the sunset leaving me in peace. I silently hoped the cars smoky
exhaust
propelled it’s occupants as far from me as humanely possible.
It’s true that the undisputed
kings of inner city transportation are cars.
This fact doesn’t stop me from laughing, howling even when I
hear cheesy
generic car horns sing out with rage and anger, as if they
owned the roads out
right. Like little lords and lasses with their hereditary authority
unchecked
cars speed down the pot-holed roads with flagrant dis-regard
for the safety of
young children walking home from school. Currently pedestrian’s
maybe
overpowered by the might of the combustion engine. But
sooner or later the
change will come and the smirk on their smug drivers faces
will be lost for
good. The tables will do more than turn they will 360 flip. Then
with the wink of
an eye the champions of society the glorious driver will
become powerless
and unhinged as computers and algorithms direct humanities future
movements
and the best route to ones desired destination. I would
gladly pay far more than
$30 to strip despotic wayward drivers and their despicable passengers
of the
cruel pride only afforded to them by the power that comes
with having the
ability to direct the four wheels of a car.
Labels:
auckland,
cars,
laughs,
Moss Bioletti,
New Zealand,
nz,
pedestrain
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