The americans built this country on the carcasses of the innocent native american men, and boy do they know how to flaunt their booty! Thanks to the vast expanses of land available the americans have the luxury of having things done BIG. A lot bigger than it needs to be. Bigger cars, bigger roads, bigger buildings, bigger people (yeah, that too!)… just about everything you see is bigger that what is needed.
A corollary of that is the huge distances between any two spatially disjoint points. The nearest walmart is over 6 miles from where I stay. Even the local eatouts are not spared. They are over 25 meters from the road. Thanks to how big and far things are here, the american governement assumes that everyone who has his/her foot on american soil owns a car. As a consequence if you own a busines, then you better have enough parking space to park as many cars, as the customers you can service at a given time. So if a McDonald has a seating space of (say) 30 people, then he better be able to provide parking for as many. So what you see is that, none of the businesses are close to the road, all of them are way out with parking space between them and the road. So when you go to walmart, you see that walmart is over 100 meters fromt he highway, and betweent he highway and walmart are over a 100o cars parked!
Naturally, if you dont have a car, you might as well consider yourself handicapped. And if you are a new, ignorant, international (read as “poor”) student here, then you have to hope that someone takes pity on you and takes you to walmart regularly (which, by that way, is what the local churches and community organizations are doing, God Bless them), or you starve.
Considering the dire cirsumstances I am in, I am starting a Help-Me-Buy-A-Car fund. Everyone is welcome to contribute to it. I am make do distinction in the caste, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, race, species whatever. So please feel free and generous to contribute to this fund. I myself have contributed over $100 to it. You can follow suit, no pressure though. Would be nice if you contributed, that’s all. I accept cheques, and wire transfers. Feel free to contact me.
Amen ;)
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