On the Road – Subway Heat, Lost Tourists, Barefoot Passengers and More
June 21, 2022
Highlights and lowlights from yesterday’s visit to the universe’s center:
1. En route to the bus stop at Fairview Mall, I spotted a jogger wearing florescent Smurf-blue runners. As I’ve said before, with joggers, it’s all about being noticed. But at least he was on the sidewalk and not on the road.
2. Some poor soul lost their shopping list. I hope he/she remembers to pick up balloon and “decarations” at Dollar Tree, racket strings at Canadian Tire and their meds at Shoppers.
3. On the next episode of “As the World Turns” . . .
4. “X” marks the spots at the bus stop . . .
5. Looks like someone had a few beers before getting on the bus . . .
6. I continue to be curious as to why so many make an effort to grab the front seats on the upper level of the bus then nod off and go to sleep, just as several did on the trip in and back to St. Catharines. Wouldn’t it make more sense to go to the back?
7. It wasn’t the wisest move for the driver of the slow-moving small car in Grimsby to royally cut off a speeding GO bus. Just because you turn your signals on a half-mile in advance doesn’t mean you’ve got carte blanche to change lanes. Same goes for the driver of a car in Burlington later in the afternoon.
8. Someone in the back of the bus was kind enough to treat his fellow passengers to the tunes that must have been causing severe damage to his eardrums. I could practically hear every word of the songs that were being blasted from his phone.
9. Whereas the Rymal HSR bus normally waits for GO passengers at the Confederation GO stop, this time, the bus took off just as we were pulling up, leaving a wheelchair-bound woman who wanted the bus to wait for the next one. Sadly, this scene was repeated on the return trip. You’re better than that, HSR. You’re not Winnipeg Transit.
10. Speaking of Winnipeg, a truck from Arnold Brothers Transport passed by in the opposite direction in Burlington. As I’ve said before, that place does keep following me around.
11. More traffic congestion in Burlington approaching the Fairview Street exit. I thought Obersturmführer Ford was supposed to fix this . . .
12. On the train, some guy behind me talking on his phone was lamenting leaving his charger on the table and not bringing it with him. Then he said “Put some hockey tape on yours,” to the person on the other end of the line. He wound up the call with “Back to the fun, eh?”
13. Some guy in a suit who boarded at Clarkson sat next to me, put on a mask and began intently reading Justin Trudeau’s state-sponsored propaganda. You can’t fix stupid.
14. A chubby woman seated across the aisle spent much of the ride into Union watching a video on her so-called “smartphone” featuring some black guy seated on a sofa with bright yellow pillows on either side of him who was wildly gesticulating with his arms. The phone may be smart, but as for the woman, that’s left as an exercise for the reader.
15. Spotted in the washroom in the York Concourse was someone stripped down to his underwear standing in front of a mirror shaving with a Bic razor. Interestingly, he looked halfway normal.
16. Two people outside of a shop decided to hold a leisurely conversation in the middle of a hallway filled with passing rush-hour commuters in the nation’s biggest ground transportation hub.
17. It’s also okay to ask for help if you think you need to wear a mask or if you’re considering taking another poison injection . . .
18. Captions on ads spotted in the subway:
- “It’s raining condoms.”
- “It is what it is, until it isn’t.”
- “Not everyone trapped by alcohol is an alcoholic.”
19. I could only laugh as a woman in her late 30s preoccupied with both her phone and herself got up to disembark at the Bloor-Yonge station a few seconds too late and had the doors close in front of her. After missing her stop by a razor-thin margin, she had to get off at the next one and go back. My heart bleeds. Or not.
20. I wonder what they call the Summerhill station in the winter months?
21. Free orange sections outside the Bayview station . . .
22. Despite the forecasted high of +23 on the day, there was heat coming out of the registers in the subway car I was in on my return trip. I know people in this part of the world are wimps when it comes to cold weather, but still . . .
23. From their ads in the subway, the Red Star is now using the laughable slogan, “Truth we need for the world we want.” You’ll find more truth on a used car lot than you’ll find in the pages of the taxpayer-funded Red Star.
24. Some young punk who boarded the subway was sporting a black T-shirt with the line “CANCER BATS” above some caricature.
25. A low-functioning dude with a long, straggly beard was walking up and down the entire length of the train holding out his right hand with his pinky finger extended.
26. In the subway was an ad from a union featuring the face of a health-care worker under the line, “I worked a pandemic. Look me in the face and tell me I deserve to have my pay cut.” Yet those same unions have no problem looking their members in the face and telling them they deserve to be fired for refusing genocidal poison injections.
27. Somewhere over the rainbow . . .
27a. Enough already!
28. After leaving TTC’s section of Union Station, I was happy to help a couple who didn’t know where to catch the Kitchener train, but there should be much more clearer signage directing out-of-town travelers to their destination. And with the two GO concourses, a lost tourist wouldn’t know which one to go to. Metrolinx has customer service reps ready and willing to help when you get to either the Bay or the York Concourse, but you have to get there first.
29. The propaganda displays inside the York Concourse featured a Globe and Mail article lamenting how those still wearing masks are being shamed in grocery stores. Yet they failed to mention how those same people spent the last two-plus years shaming those who weren’t wearing masks. Turnabout is fair play.
29a. Metrolinx asks us to respect the choice of others as to whether or not to wear a mask, yet they don’t respect their employees’ choice as to whether or not to take genocidal poison injections.
29b. Many years from now, there will be a Nobel Prize waiting for a scientist who can develop an antidote for those injections.
30. While waiting for my Lakeshore West train, a bum came up to me and asked if I had any spare change. Rather than telling him to get lost, I just glared at him. Within seconds, however, he found someone willing to hand him some cash.
31. Seated in the back of my car on said Lakeshore West train was a mother talking to her young daughter. The daughter asked her mother if she would like to turn into a frog. “I don’t want to turn into a frog,” she replied. “How would a frog make dinner?”
32. Just make yourself at home . . .
33. Standing in front of me in line waiting for the bus in Burlington was a woman with “unprecedented” tattooed on the back of her neck.
34. An old biddy who pushed her way into the front of the line then stopped and made the others wait behind her as she leisurely decided whether or not to take the driver up on his offer to put her large bag in the luggage compartment.
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