I Can Tell the Pandemic Is Ending Because People Are Being Assholes Again

Good news/bad news

Susan Orlean
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4 min readJun 14, 2021

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Today, three — yes, THREE — different drivers flipped me off because I had interfered with their right to 1)drive very fast on the wrong side of the road or 2)park their car in the active lane at a car wash or 3)fail to yield at an exit-only lane. I was thrilled. Finally, the pandemic is ending! Finally, the…

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Susan Orlean
GEN
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Staff writer, The New Yorker. Author of The Library Book, The Orchid Thief, and more…Head of my very own Literati.com book club (join me!)