Summertime – April 9, 2008

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1. Irfan Buyuksolak says:

   December 6, 2009 at 7:51 pm

   Hello Mr, Obermeyer,

   My name is Irfan. I am a student in Grossmont College in El Cajon. I am using your “Warmer Weather Means the return of summer Pests!” cartoon for one of my english essay paper. I would like to ask you a question about this cartoon, if you have time to respond me. The question is; why did you use a snake, mosquitoes and fly in the cartoon.

   In my opinion, the problems what pedicab drivers cause are similar to problems these animals cause. For instance, mosquitoes disturb people because they like to suck humans blood. In this case, pedicab drivers disturb people because sometimes they overcharge people like sucking people’s blood.
   Also, flies always fly around people. They make dirt because they fly around dirty things and later come fly around people. From this point, when the summer comes, the population of drivers increase and they start to bother people by aggressively asking them to take a ride thousand of times, blocking traffic and ringing bells in front of the restaurant. They go around people like a fly and disturb them.
   And the third one is snake. Snake is a dangerous animal. It can bite and kill humans accidentally or to protect them self. In this case, foreign pedicab drivers always argue with local American pedicab drivers and many times they fight each other to protect them self. Plus a 60 years old women who was in San Diego with her husband to attend a national education conference and riding in a foreign pedicab driver’s three wheeled pedal taxi with a friend, fell onto a sidewalk and suffered a severe head injury on last 4th of July day. She was pronounced dead Sunday at UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest.

   At the end, in the cartoon a women try to run away from bunch of pedicab driver. Because Pedicab drivers bother people.

   Those are my opinion about your cartoon. Please respond me back, because I would like to know if I miss or misunderstand something.

   Thank you very much.

   Have a good day.

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