Rickshaws and Riders

Ver­bal comic

By Dan Liebert

Rickshaw.

I could never ride in a rickshaw—it’s so degrad­ing. I’d rather watch a man slowly starve to death than pull me in a rickshaw.

This lead me to a search on flickr


Although I do not think the new “auto” rick­shaws pro­duce the same degree of shame and degra­da­tion, I com­pletely sym­pa­thize with this ver­bal satire. I have never been in a rick­shaw, but I have never been given the chance. Still, when I see peo­ple being pulled by cyclists in dow­town urban set­tings, I sort of hate them.

It is really strange to see. I can’t watch it for very long because I am not sure how to process the whole sit­u­a­tion. The driver/rider is always radi­at­ing with this Vir­tu­os­ity, the peo­ple inside are both patron­iz­ing and pitiable, and then there I am, just stand­ing by.

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