Sunday, December 21, 2008

Lot lizards and beggars, a plenty…

lotlizb but why bother truckers, we have NO money. I stopped at the T/A off I-65 in dreary Montgomery AL yesterday and the lot lizards were working the place – and it was 1:30pm. Forget the DOW (as in Jones), when the lot lizards are out in the afternoon, you know times are tough. A few minutes ago, here at the T/A, in Marianna FL, some fat dude, I could barely understand, was asking for food money. Hey, sorry, my well is dry – go ask the RV’ers – they obviously have the capital to hit the road in style. I’m a work’n man with barely enough to cover the mortgage.

The lot lizards back in Montgomery were, frankly, nasty. One of them was crossing the road and just at the last minute saw me moving forward to merge into traffic. I looked right at her. She looked like a smiling zombie, probably completely coked out. And she looked like she hadn’t slept in days, nor bathed. The other one looked emaciated and wired. Probably also on drugs. Both of them don’t need to be arrested, they need to be hospitalized in rehab and fed a decent meal. Obviously their pimps have them working overtime.

I pity them and any driver that would pay for their services. I know there is a lot of anger and frustration out there, but to do something stupid and deal with these women in any fashion is downright irresponsible. Even with “protection” you are subjecting yourself to a host of other potential problems beyond STD’s – sexually transmitted diseases. Besides, despite the Montgomery cops seemingly looking the other way, it is illegal. I would hope you plan to fumigate the interior of your truck (and yourself) after one of these “girls” had been inside.

Unfortunately, giving lot lizards and- or beggars money is not the answer. If you had a spare $20 and wanted to help one of these girls out, there is usually some low life driving around in a big white or black late model sedan with spinning shiny wheels that speeds by to get the money.  Most of them will refuse to have to you accompany them into the truck stop restaurant to buy them a meal, because it is not what they want. Meaning it’s not drugs or alcohol. The same goes for the beggars. I recommend you just say NO and go on your way.

The lot lizard sticker is from: http://sharonb.hypermart.net/trucks3.htm