You know, I remember like, one time my car was making a sound it obviously shouldn’t have. A sign — a sound that was like, “Your car is broken” type of sound. So I remember in a panic I pulled into someone’s driveway, because I was in like — oh, on a rural road. So I was like, “I just need to get off this shoulder here.” So I pulled into a driveway and, um, to make a phone call. To call my parents and be like, “My car is broke.”
And I remember having a, uh, a man come out and confront me and, uh, threaten me in a pretty hostile manner. And it was, it was a lot of things: it was confusing, it was scary, and it was a wake up call. And that was before 2016, um, so I guess — I don’t know, I guess that was a wake up call to me that, uh, I kind of assumed like, “Yeah, people understand I’m not threatening. I’m just here ’cause my cars broken.” And then I’m like, “Man, some people just see the worst in other people or assume the worst.”
And I feel like it’s just become easier and easier to make those assumptions, and I do that as well! When I see — sometimes when I see someone plop down a particular political sign, there’s a part of me that goes like, “Oh. I, I can’t unsee that.” Like, “Oh, how — why — no.” Um, and I really never really used to feel that way.