BTW what’s happening with coal rollers?

Imma city bus driver. The other day I was pulled over picking someone up, and wouldn’t you know it, some asshat in an obnoxious truck coal rolls me. And of course I had my window open because spring.

I gotta say the noise is worse than the smoke. Why anyone would spend money to make their vehicle sound that way will forever baffle me.

But anyways, to my joy the guy was immediately pulled over! I asked around and I guess the guy got nailed for: interfering with transit operations, illegal tint, and failure to obey traffic signals. About 350$'s worth of tickets.

$350 not enough. Coal rolling is objectively bad for everything including the driver. It’s a great metaphor for certain Americans (and maybe us as a whole)

There’s a documentary series, “How To by John Wilson,” that’s on HBO (at least in the US), and it’s basically a Nathan Fielder style absurdist look at the world, with a bunch of real world footage edited together, sometimes with a voiceover, for comedic effect.

But one of the episodes has him going out to figure out why people roll coal, and he interviews a guy who does it, who cannot string together any coherent thought behind it. It’s amazing television.