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This morning, I had a close call, when a black female cop almost rear-ended me for going the posted 25 mph speed limit on a road that\u00a0she<\/em>\u00a0typically monitors like a Nazi.\u00a0 Because, she was trying to multitask and was on her in-car computer (yeah, she was\u00a0that<\/em>\u00a0close that I could tell what she was doing), probably running my plates looking for an excuse to pull me over since I was obviously obliging to the speed limit.\u00a0 And then she almost rear-ended me again when I actually came to a complete stop at the posted stop sign.\u00a0 My annoyance in the world rose again to where I remembered I was doing something this month.<\/span><\/p>\n What historic events led to African-Americans insisting on retrieving mail from their mailbox from within their cars?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’m currently working a fairly normal 9-5 kind of job right now.\u00a0 So by the time I’m pulling into Zombieland, it’s around a time when many other residents are arriving home as well.\u00a0 Without fail, and with as much frequency as I am inconvenienced by at least one car insisting on backing into their driveways and sometimes garages, there\u00a0will be at least<\/em>\u00a0one car I witness, every day, that is stopped adjacent to their mailbox, getting the mail, from inside their cars.<\/span><\/p>\n Sometimes, I can understand it; like if it were raining outside, it might not be a bad idea to minimize just how much rain you get on yourself, by getting it from the comfort of your own vehicle.\u00a0 In fact, that’s probably the only legitimate excuse I can think of to why someone would do that.\u00a0 Otherwise, I don’t get it.\u00a0 I don’t mind, and often like the feeling of a work day’s completion, capped off with getting out of my car after the conclusion of my commute, stretching out my legs, and taking the 15 seconds to walk down the driveway, leisurely check the mailbox and retrieve my allotment of bills, rip and toss the junk mail, and head into the house.<\/span><\/p>\n But otherwise, I cannot rationalize why a vast majority of people who live in my neighborhood that happens to be 96% black insists on retrieving their mail from within their cars.\u00a0 I think it kind of goes hand-in-hand with backing in their vehicles, because for those residents that have to turn left to get into their driveways, they conveniently put themselves into position for optimal backing in, by inconveniencing oncoming traffic, in order to feint into an optimal turning radius.\u00a0 But now, they’re stopping midway through their feint, facing oncoming traffic, when they completely stop in front of their mailboxes, and you see an arm reach and stretch, and dig the contents of their mailbox out.\u00a0 The biggest assholes sort through their mail right then and there,\u00a0before<\/em>\u00a0completing the lengthy process of carefully backing their cars into the driveway.<\/span><\/p>\n I don’t get it.\u00a0 In the long run, it probably takes a lot more effort to get their mail from inside their vehicles than it would be to take the 10-15 seconds to walk down the driveway to the mailbox to retrieve.\u00a0 You have to be mindful of oncoming traffic, you don’t want to accidentally get so close you scrape your rear-view mirrors, or worse yet, scrape your rims on the curb and give them road rash.\u00a0 I thought it was done out of laziness, but upon musing about how much effort goes into such a procedure, now I’m left wondering why people would put so much effort into such a mundane task.<\/span><\/p>\n It also gives an anti-social message, to the people who camp in their vehicles, and then back directly into the garage, for those residents whose garages aren’t used as auxiliary hoarding dumps, and can house a vehicle.\u00a0 They avoid the minimal risk of god-forbid exposing themselves to a talkative neighbor, and scurry as quickly as possible into their domiciles.<\/span><\/p>\n So historically, I’m left to wonder what led to the evolution of this behavior?\u00a0 Camping in their cars gives me the impression of fear, or the seeking of shelter, or\u00a0cover<\/em>, from attack, gunfire.\u00a0 Maybe during the L.A. Riots, or when Detroit was the murder capital of the country, black people wanted to minimize how much they exposed themselves to drive-bys and gang wars, and did whatever they could from the safety of their own vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n Maybe the advent of the drive-thru in fast food, and now pharmaceutical drug stores, as evolved today’s culture into believing that everything should be available to drive-thru with, to include their own mailboxes.\u00a0 Maybe in the end it’s not just black folk who exhibit this kind of behavior, but given the fact that I had never seen it until living where I do now kind of leads me to theorize that it is.\u00a0 Maybe the innate desire to separate themselves from the perceived expectation of society leads to this behavior.\u00a0 Maybe such rationale is what leads to the behavior of all these questions I’m asking.<\/span><\/p>\n So much for Moloch’s desire for equality when many are deliberately trying to separate themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning, I had a close call, when a black female cop almost rear-ended me for going the posted 25 mph speed limit on a road that\u00a0she\u00a0typically monitors like a Nazi.\u00a0 Because, she was trying to multitask and was on her in-car computer (yeah, she was\u00a0that\u00a0close that I could tell what she was doing), probably … Continue reading BHM query: Using the mailbox from inside the car<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,51,83,15,46],"class_list":["post-28351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-bhm","tag-cars","tag-observations","tag-og","tag-zombieland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28353,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28351\/revisions\/28353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}