Back to the Universe’s Center
May 29, 2018
Highlights and pictures from yesterday’s tour of the universe’s center:
1. Free cane:
2. Why would a street hockey tournament in Brantford be advertising on St. Catharines Transit? I know people in this part of the world think nothing of long commutes, but a one-hour drive just to play street hockey seems like a bit much.
3. Spotted on the QEW were trucks from Bison Transport and Winnipeg Motor Express. As I’ve said before, the SPRM does follow me around.
4. The pickup truck the bus was following while crossing the Burlington Skyway had a bumper sticker which read, “I used to care, but now I take a pill for that.”
5. Our GO bus driver sure didn’t let those solid white lines he crossed at the North Shore Boulevard exit cramp his style at all. Fortunately, however, traffic was moving slow enough so that it wasn’t a problem as he moved out of an exit-only lane far too late.
6. If the Lakeshore West train I was on had to stop suddenly, there were a couple of sleep-deprived women with their heads leaning against the window who would have been in for one heck of a jolt.
6a. Everyone else in my car had their heads buried in their phones. Except for me.
7. Under the heading of Something I Didn’t Need to See: A woman standing in the aisle nearby had an ass big enough to damn the mighty Mississippi. As my father would say, she needs to buy her dresses at Ontario Tent and Awning.
8. Again, under the heading of Something I Didn’t Need to See: A young couple seated across from me on the #1 TTC subway line were feeling each other up and the guy had his hands in his girlfriend’s crotch. As my mother would say, get a room!
9. Someone was having fun with this sign at Christie Pits Park:
10. Assorted characters at Christie Pits Park:
You won’t likely get much sound from the video, but I could hear the woman in the wheelchair from a block away as she was twirling around and filming herself before catching sight of me filming her and retreating across Bloor Street.
11. No camera can capture the horrible smells coming from the various eateries around Koreatown. But I did capture the sight of what looked to be a cucumber perched inside an abandoned plate of mushy red guck. Koreatown in a microcosm.
12. Is this where people air their dirty laundry?
13. Along Bloor, I passed by someone wearing a T-shirt with some small printing on top, then “Read Something Else” in a much larger font written below. Shortly thereafter, a cyclist passed me wearing a T-shirt with “Come up to my room” written on it. It’s almost scary to think how many people earn their living coming up with slogans and messages to put on clothing.
14. The local Communist Party candidate was sharing space with a fortune teller. You can’t make stuff like this up.
15. Once again, someone stopped me on the street asking for directions and, despite not being a local, I was able to point him in the right direction.
16. Why on Earth would anyone care enough to go into such a place, let alone pay $14 for the privilege?
17. Is it any coincidence that the sign on the right is in NDP orange?
18. Shots from Philosopher’s Walk on the UCU campus:
19. Spotted this Liberal bus parked at Queen’s Park. No doubt they're packing up and getting ready to leave. As Doug Ford says, the party’s over.
20. Oh yes, please enlighten me on this Liberal “compassion” that has put more than 300,000 Ontarians out of work, jacked up the provincial debt to record levels and made life so unaffordable for low-income families that many have to choose between heating and eating.
21. Obligatory shot of the Toronto sign at Nathan Phillips Square:
22. With temperatures breaking the 30-degree mark, I think this guy might have found it a bit warm in that jacket:
23. With those warm temperatures, I took the opportunity to explore the underground walkway system. Unlike a certain other part of the world, there were no beggars or bums like this one caught on video in Winnipeg Square taking a dump in a planter:
24. Spotted in front of Union Station was someone offering her half-eaten relish-filled hot dog to a beggar. Rather than accept the gift, however, the beggar began asking where she got it before turning away to try and solicit funds from another passer-by. Picky beggars these days, aren’t they?
25. On the Burlington-bound Lakeshore West train, I listened as a young Muslim woman of Somali origin moaned and groaned about how some friend of hers expects her to know everything and talked about the proper ways to prank someone. Then as she prepared to disembark at Port Credit, she complained bitterly about how complicated her life was because she had a phone plan with no data before leaving her partially finished Tim Hortons beverage on the seat.
26. The guy in a suit seated across from her also left a complimentary beverage behind. Folks, this is GO, not Winnipeg Transit.
27. Every car in the lot at the Bronte station had one of these blue reminders of the proper way to vote in the upcoming provincial election:
28. I think I was the only one who boarded the #12 GO bus back to St. Catharines without any luggage. Tourist season is indeed back.
29. Among those tourists were a number from Quebec who were seated around me. Across the aisle was someone who was on the phone the entire way to St. Catharines and often put it on speakerphone so that half the bus could listen in on both ends of her conversation. I hope she is made to feel just as welcome in our country and I was when I visited hers.
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