The other evening I visited city hall to once again lobby council to create car-free streets here! This time I recounted the story of a woman I met in the industrial butthole of town who asked me to walk her across some roads, give her some change, and also told me about a time when she was hit by a car!
The esteemed community members in the audience laughed, bawdily, as I recounted this anecdote, I guess because they assumed she was making it all up in order to get change