@jrg @yogthos In the before times my wife used to do regular business trips to the USA. She never hired a car, she always used public transport.

"But you can't get here from there by public transport!" the people she was visiting would say. "Oh yes you can, this train then this bus." "But ... *poor* people ride those trains and buses!!"

Where "poor", she worked out, was how they were warning her that she might encounter "black" people on the journey.