I have long believed Lime scooters are a blight to cities. I hate the way they’re left blocking sidewalks making it impossible for people with disabilities to use them. I hate that we have allowed private corporations to take up public space. I hate the assholes who go zooming by in crosswalks without paying attention to where they’re going.
But last night was a breaking point for me.
I was walking down 45th in Wallingford when a young woman on a Lime scooter came BARRELING through down the center of the sidewalk. She was screaming: “Watch where you’re fucking going!”
Seriously. “Watch where you’re fucking going” from the woman illegally riding a death trap down the center of the sidewalk.
Here’s the kicker: She wasn’t talking to me. She was talking to a man who seemed to be stumbling a little on the side of the sidewalk.
It looked a little like he was limping. When I got closer, it became clear he actually had a prosthetic leg.
This entitled asshole on a Lime scooter was in such a hurry, she cursed at a disabled person for not getting out of the way fast enough so she could ride 25 mph down a path intended for walking.
I know Lime scooters aren’t the most pressing social issue of our time. But for me, they are the perfect symbol of cultural collapse in which we have allowed late-stage capitalism to interfere in our ability to treat each other with basic respect as human beings. They’re also really fucking ugly. Join me in taking them down?
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