Rickshaws and Riders
By on May 14, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0)
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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