I slip around like Bambi on sidewalks knaggliga as toboggan runs. No sand as far as the eye can reach. Each and every other person that pops up in front of me must strain your muscles to stop the hearty halkpladask on the hard substrate.
I go on traffic schools skidpan. Though it is on a sidewalk in the city.
I am 38 years. Fully fresh. Good eyesight. I move with cautious baby steps forward. His eyes to the ground. It is so hard for me not to slip and fall on this surface. But how is it not the pensioners, and for those who need mobility aid? They can’t even go out, I think.
of all walks of life and ages. Everyone is dependent on being able to get through on the city’s sidewalks. The topic should be a high priority. Still, nothing happens. How do we get the politicians to wake up and make this a priority? We should demonstrate! To organize ourselves for something to happen! As the French did in petrol rates. But we cum in mouth only. Whines a little bit on the internet. Things do not go together and fighting for our cause.
“You swedes, you just swallow everything,” says my väninnas man from Turkey. You must be the most easily manipulated people in the world. The politicians can just do whatever they want with you. You say nothing and you go with everything.
say, my chilean friend.
– In Sweden. You are completely jaded. If the price of the SL-card is raised, you say nothing. Had it been anyone else in the world, people had gone out and yelling and demonstrating in the squares. In our countries you can’t even raise the price of bread by a few cents without people going out and screaming and showing their feelings.
Why is it so? I have been thinking a lot about it here. I think that we swedes are so terribly self-absorbed to preserve our self-image of not wanting to be a nuisance, a version of Jante: No, I’ll not make a fuss of me.
instead, slips, we and beats us in the municipal osandade sidewalks. Suffer in silence, based on the passive aggressiveness in the chambers of the heart and register anonymous complaints to the local authority and the discrimination ombudsman.
Josefine Hökerberg is a reporter on DN and hope to avoid spikes in some years. Here you can read more Stockholmskrönikor of DN’s writers and photographers.