<< January 8, 2007 >>
cambridge joe
it started off innocently enough. another angry tirade on badtransit from some enraged commuter, probably confused because they tried to use their receipt as a ticket again.
but this post was different... it had a familiar voice, and was atypically well-reasoned. must not be a commuter rail or bus rider! i scanned to the end to see where the author was from to find, unsurprisingly, another blame charlie firster from the left bank.
it was fuzzy at first, but the pieces of the puzzle began to fit together quickly. only having $20s, girlfriend, and joe had just paid for his entire lunch using $1 coins. then there was the trademark use of such racially charged phrases as "squawbuck", but the clincher was his claiming to have lived here for seven years.
also i wish i had the eloquence to come up with the phrase "I don't recall the Rive Gauche being the site for hulking chemical plants" but alas that would require knowing what the rive gauche was. or is?
man it would have been even more embarassing if i had left it in as rive cauche.