On the Road – Pizza Gender, Gay Bakeries, Safe Spaces and More
November 10, 2022
Highlights and lowlights from today’s bus-bike trek to and from the Falls:
1. It’s always Golf O’Clock somewhere . . .
2. Did they just assume the pizza’s gender and marital status?
2a. Check out those chic window coverings.
3. A bakery for gay Brits?
4. I think I’ll take a pass . . .
4a. I wonder if it has occurred to anyone that this alleged wave of respiratory infections is happening because, not in spite of all these injections.
4b. These days, used car salesmen might be more trustworthy than doctors, health-care professionals and public-health officials.
5. For the record, the parking rate at the casino, still the best deal in the Falls, is now up to $15. Down Murray Hill, it’s $30 to park at Queen Victoria Park. And if you want to partake in the supper buffet at the casino, it will run you $49. Some of it is Justinflation. Some of it just gouging.
6. Public display of affection on a pole . . .
7. How the government feels when you give them money at the casino . . .
8. Um, whatever . . .
9. Video walkthrough of the Galleria and food court at the Fallsview Casino:
10. Spotted on Queen Street was a community resident bum slumped on a seat who looked every bit like someone who had taken too much of something the human body wasn’t made to ingest.
10a. That anyone was spotted on Queen Street is much bigger news. Downtown Niagara Falls isn’t exactly a hotbed of activity, even for the street urchins.
11. On the menu at Third Space Café was The Original Breakfast Sandwich for $5.30. It reminded me of the so-called Original Main Street in Sauk Centre, MN. They also offered homemade pumpkin pie syrup for your latte. But alas, I’m not a latte kind of guy. I’m not even exactly sure what a latte is. Nor do I care enough to find out what a latte is.
12. It was apparently Mystery Muffin Day there. As loyal readers might expect, I let others be the guinea pigs.
13. Some guy in there interviewing Lisa (one of the workers or owners) about homeless shelters around the region said he had a love affair with notepads.
14. Posted at the front was a sign from the region promoting a survey on the Niagara Poverty Reduction Strategy. In other words, the region’s biggest poverty creator wants your input on how they can reduce poverty. It is akin to vandals who break car windows and spray graffiti on houses asking your input on how they can clean up your neighborhood.
15. <sarcasm> I took great comfort in being in a “safe space” . . . </sarcasm>
16. The staff went out of their way to say how much they appreciated my patronage. Maybe too much out of their way. A little thanks goes a long way. A lot of thanks makes it seem phony.
17. Or just let the law of natural selection run its course . . .
18. In one of those retinal-searing moments, running down the platform after a Welland-bound bus at the Morrison/Dorchester hub was a chunky black woman showing way too much cleavage who wasn’t wearing a bra. Needless to say, Welland can have her.
19. Unlike my last trip on Regional Transit, this time I actually had to pay. No more riding like a Winnipegger.
20. Though the DWAM continues to go out of style, seated across the aisle from me was a DWAFS. That’s a Dipshit With A Face Shield. Someone who clearly watches too much mainstream media and believes every word of what they tell her.
21. I nearly laughed out loud when passing a sign on Dieppe Road listing downtown St. Catharines as an “attraction.” Well, I suppose it is. It just depends on what attracts you.
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