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Having recently experienced enjoying a three day car trip with three aging females and myself, experiencing the delights of an aged prostate, I can't praise the new service stations with their clean bathrooms and assortment of both healthy and less healthy options to sustain one on their journey.

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Our demographic is not the priority 😀

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Your poll reminded me how great gas stations are. Can’t I vote for all the above? This is making me angsty.

I had not heard of about this coal roller thing (what do you suppose is the NYC equivalent?) but knowing about it now makes me happy. People!

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To your question the NYC equivalent might be the incessant horn blaring of the cabs even before the light turns green

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If Substack allowed more answers I could probably add all of the above. :( -- Your gas station comment reminds me of your story about the Naked Cowboy buying a pound of some sort of meat as his breakfast? You would love Midwestern gas stations. Because dairy is so big, many of them sell bagged milk -- for real!! I am glad coal rollers don't seem to inhabit NYC b/c a bike rider like yourself becomes a target. As I remember NYC more defined by the little convenience stores -- do the hot dog rollers exist in Brooklyn? bagged milk : https://imgur.com/gallery/P9KWWtl

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It occurred to me this morning that this is the second time I refused the answer your poll because I did not like any of the options enough. Maybe the problem is me?

Here in NYC the only hot dog rollers are at the 7-Eleven locations—a little slice of suburban life in the city.

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We shall meet in the middle. I will work to give better answer options and you try compromise :) I know who the voters generally are and they are the happy people! I added an option to the next poll that should make things easier for you :)

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Ah, many coal rollers where I live. I am not thrilled thinking about their anger as gas prices skyrocket at some point.

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It is such a dumb thing to have emerged. I wanted to believe this was a fringe behavior but it sounds like pretty common. My friend, the source of Why the Anger? is not a subscriber but thought this was so funny. There is so much at play. (1) People vote against THEIR OWN interest (2) People MODIFY THEIR OWN VEHICLES to upstage a stranger or hurt an anonymous bicyclist (3) People believe there are pedophile rings in the basement of pizzerias with Hillary Clinton as a key player (4) The existence of Q-Anon and the longevity of the rank stupidity.

As for the coal roller. There must be people analyzing the plumbing of modern vehicles and developing diagrams and procedures on how to replumb you $80K vehicle. It is all so dumb to associate with sentient beings :) -- I am afraid to even do a nominal seearch on YouTube as I will just be disappointed in my fellow humans.

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Yeah, I'd skip the video search. I can attest to the fact that this exists in disappointingly large numbers :(

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I have avoided looking it up so far and am commited to not do it for at least a week and maybe forever.

I am not an avid bicycle rider but I am rediscovering. It seems inconceivable that I could get angry at a mother/father pushing a baby buggy or a person riding a bicycle when I am commanding a 3000+ pound vehicle at 40 MPH -- there are CONSTANTLY incidents against bicycle riders -- hard to understand why such violent behavior is ignored. So profoundly unstable and it seems pre-meditated which is the most onerous of standards for criminal behavior. The same applies to someone consciously making modifications to their truck. A reasonable person can easily expected to have understood what might happen if they do it.

While it is undoubtedly overreaction I think about a silly scenario of alien life visiting earth. The first step is to simply assess how the top of food-chain sentient life-form treats their fellow men and women. It seems we will fail the test profoundly. To expect understanding from the visitors will be a lot to expect.

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