Last winter was rough in central New Jersey, which means Pothole and Road Repair Season has been particularly long and troublesome. When these things occur, the chance of catching misery in the form of a flat tire increase, and it's now happened to your poor author three times in the last six weeks.
Which means that instead of working on a holiday weekend when I might make a decent buck, I'm home catching up on blog-worthy moments. It's not as lucrative, but lemons, lemonade.
> Rider, on exit before Memorial Day, wishes me a happy holiday. I get it; to him, it's just a day off and maybe an invite to the cookout. If I was quicker and braver, I might have said something like, "You know it, bro! Every year we go to the ceremony, exhume the bodies and have a kegger." Or "My people go hard! Time to dig up the pets in the backyard and put on the annual puppet show!"
This may be why I'm not invited to the cookout, actually.
> My area is festooned with political signs for a candidate named Wang, which, I am sorry to inform said candidate, triggers my always-on internal 12-year-old boy who only knew that as a profane euphemism. Finally, a political candidate you can get behind! If, well, that's your thing. No judgment. Support Wang!
> I also had a recent pick up with the name of Prat, who I suspect has already heard things about this.
> Pick up at the Trenton train station for a run to an industrial site in Florence, about 20 minutes south. As we start to chat, she asks me if I want to "help", which piques my ears. It turns out that my fare is in the midst of a prank war with her guy, and has gotten on a plane to visit him without warning at his place of work. As such, she needs me to call him from the parking lot to tell him he's got a delivery. This is done to solid effect and without undue delay, so, yeah, Fare of the Month, this.
> Overheard at the end of a nightclub drop off: "Please do not tell my boyfriend I do drugs! We're getting married!" Even if I could, I wouldn't, because my sweet summer child, I would be highly surprised if he doesn't already know...
