the last uber i was in the middle aged white guy driver kept talking to me about how he had to ditch his Filipina fiance still in the phillipines because she got fat during covid. and that he was just here earning enough money to go back and get another one because his daughters dont talk to him anymore. and how he doesn’t understand why women in this country don’t treat their men better. it was like a complete caricature. i couldn’t get him to shut up.
it doesn’t help me that i probably physically look like i would sympathize with his causes. big cornfed white dude with a longer beard
Yeah when I go back on the road I’m trying to do something to alleviate this. Racist dipshit expats want to feel me out to see if I’m cool with their race war theories. And nice normal people shy away a bit, worried I might be one of the racist expats.
I’m not shaving the beard. But I am thinking about wearing a lot of rainbow hippy clothing, or something that sets me apart from the Harley-riding-Trumper-expat-sex-tourist-crowd.
I wear a lot of super-hero themed t-shirts. Batman, Flash, Green Lantern, etc. I am not remotely into comics, but I like that it signals I’m just a big harmless geek.
Weird thought I just had, are Gen-X and Millennials the only generations that really embraced sarcasm and irony? Boomers can do a little sarcasm, but they don’t get irony at all. And Gen-Z seems like they don’t really do either.
Had another idea for a costume. Thinking I will put a bandage on my head and play the out of uniform stormtrooper who famously hit his head on the door frame of the death star.
