>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…
>driving Lyft >take a lady and her little girl to a body shop/junkyard >dozen of wrecked cars everywhere >a brutal assemblage >a real horrorshow of metal and glass >agonized sculptures…
>driving Lyft >pick up three girls from FAMU Palmetto >Girl A, Girl B, Girl C >their conversation went as follows: >A: Girl I was feeling some type of way last…
>driving Lyft >pick up Asian FSU student >May be Hmong; said she was from Minnesota >I say I am from South Alabama >she says “I don’t get the football thing…
>driving Lyft >pick up a guy in Frenchtown >short trip >supposed to take him to another, identical-looking part of Frenchtown >he looks like Eddie Steeples in My Name is Earl…
>driving Lyft >pick up a guy at an Alzheimer’s hospice >guy looks like Red Foo >I guess he works there >gets in and sits directly behind me >I hate that…
>driving Lyft >around noonish >going up Magnolia from Apalachee >dude is walking a bicycle across four lanes of traffic >I say “dude,” but maybe not dude >age, race and gender…
>driving Lyft >pick up guy wearing expensive suit >government type, going to an office in Southwood >He smells like baby powder >I smell LOTS of baby powder >it is oppressive…