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“Don’t do it then!”
Okay. An inside joke changed my life. Me and a friend were on this bus that sometimes did a double shift on Sundays, going the extra mile all the way down to the beach. So it was rich watching the driver not a give a shit about an elderly woman struggling with her stuff off […]
Postcards
January 19, 2014
I root around on Sundays. Digging up old things never fully & completely forgotten about, smiles up turning from the insides once that particular draw is pulled out again. Usually, with something else in mind to find in there, the drawer where I keep the officially missed in stacks of postcards. A constant inspiration for […]
Public Transit Patrons, Can I Have a Word?
September 27, 2011
It’s about the buffer seat. Please don’t sit there. Not when there are plenty of other perfectly good seats available. “Sharon, I’m confused, what’s a buffer seat?” Ah, yes. It’s generally the middle seat in a three-seater on the TTC if someone has already occupied either bookend-seats of the said three-seater. If you’re sitting alone in […]
First of All, Do Super Hot Guys in Medium-end Shoe Stores give their Business Card to Everybody?
September 26, 2011
I wouldn’t know. Living in Asia for as long as I did, I’ve bought shoes from flirty sales guys with plucked eyebrows, Street Fighter hair (I mean exactly like the video game) and who thought that capris and alpine pattern leggings were unisex. A little while ago I was looking for a nice new pair of work shoes and a beefy, […]
Adele, What the Fail?
September 22, 2011
That’s not my catch phrase. I overheard pre-teens on the bus maybe yesterday using it to talk about some epic disappointment. It’s a variation on “what the f@ck”. Tina Fey says, “what the what?”. I say, “what the hell” because the puritanical “what the heck?” annoys me more than what the H.E.DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS non-denominational Christian moms say in public […]
People on the Subway, How Old Must a Woman Look For You to Give Up Your Seat Without Hurting Her Feelings?
August 29, 2011
I’m guessing mid to late 90s maybe 100ish. The other day I met the hottest 71-year old woman I’ve ever seen in my life. Sporty and spirited. Not at all cougar or animal printed or heavily made up and impossible not to notice. She high-fived me when I told her exactly that and whispered in my ear to tell me she just […]
Toronto, Can I Help?
August 23, 2011
You seem confused about public transit etiquette. You probably didn’t know over 2 million of us take the TTC every day. 2,000,000! To give you an idea, if North American public transit systems qualified for the Olympics, we’d win bronze in rat race. New York leaves with gold and Mexico City comes in second with quality silver. Torontonians, let’s put a capital ‘T’ in sportsmanship. We’re the biggest city here, capital of Ontario and […]
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Hyperactive Inefficiency 
May 18, 2014
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