So, what's the deal here with this blog?

I am a foreign woman living in Istanbul. This blog's sole purpose, for better or worse, is to provide pure, guilt-free entertainment through the re-telling of my experiences being stalked in the city. It happens often, so regular posting is easy. Stop by to have a laugh in-between gory world news and your boring day job.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Hey, That's My Ride! Free Public Transportation in Istanbul for Women Only!!!! Yay!!!!


Stalker Alert Level: Yellow if you don't get in, Dark Orange if you do (PS Don't)
Hilarity Level: Depends on whether or not you can decode this cryptic post....Funny.

I haven't been stalked in a couple of days. I've been walled up in the school where I teach. So, tell of older stories?

Who's looking for a ride to work? Fear not, fair maidens! A man is on his way to get you, in case you forgot to call him. Just start walking. Then, as if tuned into your call for assistance on some psychic and maybe even primal wavelength, a man will stop, pull his car to the side of the road, and motion for you to get it. It's okay if you don't know him. It's okay, it's okay. He'll take you. It's no problem.

Now, you were probably thinking you'd have to walk all that way on your own! Ah, shucks, never worry about such an impossible outcome. Your journey out into the streets is, by its very nature, a plea for a man to rescue you, especially if he drives a BMW or some other big shot car--and believe me, trust me as your sister, he will hear this plea swell up in the center of his being and rise up like a mist of awareness, a truth and a duty to save you.

He'll come, like a noble steed rearing his head from the darkness in some historical adventure movie, to usher you off into the sunset that awaits on your challenge to get wherever you were going (like work or something, for example).

What's that you say? Oh, you were gonna take the bus? You were planning to walk? You don't know him? He looks creepy? You're being picked up by someone? You are taking the bus? You don't feel comfortable getting into a stranger's car? Hey, hey. Chill out, you high-strung panic prone maniac! HE came through the battles and fought off the demons to reach you and drive you wherever you are going. HE has sacrificed his daily plan for your benefit. HE did a u-turn in a heavy traffic area and drove over the center divider to be at your side. HE is here at last.

He does a "pat pat" on the passenger seat as he pulls up alongside the sidewalk and leans over to peer up in a super-bravado dramatic stare. This dear female creatures of the universe, is your chance. He's here, at last, on the side of the road, ready to pick you up, whoever you are, and take you wherever you were going, and he'll do it randomly right this very moment, cause he had nowhere to go that is worth more than you and your sweet cheeks. And I don't mean the ones on your face.

P.S. If you turn him down, another one will show up momentarily, so just keep this in mind. This happens more often than some may like to believe.


3 comments:

  1. You street wise hussy...didn't you know being who and what you are...you are an automatic magnet to men trusting that you need a ride on their colorful horse...and trust me, it's not the one with the braided mane and funny way of neighing in the company of other colorful horses .... what's that you say .... getting too vulgar, eh? Ah who's kidding here... magnet or not... being a traffic stopper does have some bonuses ... in movies...

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  2. Sausage Fest....PEACE! (sorry in a sarcastic mood).... "Neighing with other colorful Horses" = "Sausage Fest" ... LMAO!

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  3. Oh, but Shanna the thing is, in Turkey, the men act like you are SUPPOSED to get it, like this is totally normal, and believe me if you did they would never stop until you said yes, called the police, etc. These guys are 100% stalkers at work, nothing less. It's not like the cute cat calls we get once in a blue moon in the states. It's a totally weird dude with a patriarchal complex shoved up his ninny that comes to the side and thinks it's your job or something to get in....literally, cause there are lots of real hussies here and they are called Natashas. For real. A Turkish word for prostitute is ACTUALLY Natasha because so many Russians are prostitutes here, and I look Russian (comparatively since I'm alongside Turks).

    I so do not want to think of a sausage fest with these greasy pigs. But you're funny, okay, I'll give you that.

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