>driving Lyft >it’s late, well past midnight >I’m a bit tired, kinda loopy >park at Urban Enclave, a student apartment complex >sit, wait >and then I see it >moving towards…
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>driving Lyft >pick up three twentysomethings >they are dressed for yachting off Martha’s Vineyard >headed to a wedding venue out in the boondocks >they all recently graduated from the University…
>driving Lyft >get called to a liquor store on Adams >homeless guy drinking a beer in the parking lot >my passenger comes out of the store >opens the bottle of…
>driving Lyft >it is ten in the morning >I have to be at school at 11 for a meeting >the dean and everybody will be there >it is conspicuous if…
>driving Lyft >it is noon on a Saturday >at the Doubletree I pick up a bro >the broest of bros >indeed, no bro could out-bro this bro, bro >he looks…
>driving Lyft >have two girls and a guy—FSU students—in my car >they are talking about some poor soul named Allie >girl says “Yeah I don’t know what’s up with her….
>driving Lyft>my work wife talks funny>she says “Appa-LAY-chee” instead of “Appa-LATCH-ee”>she says the “Blount” in “Blountstown” as if it rhymes with “count” and not “punt” >FAMU is pronounced “FAM-YOU”>she says…
>driving Lyft >it’s dark already >pick up old Black lady at an elementary school >clearly a lunch lady >few have a better claim to paradise than lunch ladies >St. Peter…
>driving Lyft >four-way stop at Gibbs and Monticello >lots of debris in the road >people keep driving over it and crushing the bigger pieces into powder >I see a hand-sized…
>driving Lyft >get called out to the forest primeval >into the Apalachicola National Forest >down toward Crawfordville then down some dirt roads >it is very dark in the forest primeval…