On the Road – Sobbing Passengers, Gay Dentistry, Subway Liquor Sales and More
November 28, 2024
Highlights and lowlights from yesterday’s trek to and from the universe’s center:
1. Someone seated near the front window in the upper level of the Burlington-bound bus I was on spent much of the ride intermittently sobbing, drawing the attention of more than one passenger. But the guy behind me didn’t seem to notice as he spent much of the ride snoring.
2. Amid the mad crush of humanity waiting to get down the stairs after getting off the train at Union, I half-jokingly wondered whether it took more time to get to Union or to get to the concourse once the train pulled in.
3. Christmas carolers in the Bay Concourse raising money for the United Way:
4. The gay wheel of dentistry . . .
5. Just as I noticed on the train, each and every person around me on the packed #1 subway line was engrossed with their phone. What the hell is so bloody important? I don’t get it and I’m proud of that.
6. During the hour I spent in the cafeteria at the Ikea in North York, I spotted no less than seven DWAMs™ walking by on the sidewalk. Outside. And though I spotted none on the GO buses or trains I took, there were way too many DWAMs™ in the subway. Those are people whose brains are permanently broken.
7. Apparently TTC has a new “sign in” route . . .
8. On my return trip, sitting on the ground at the end of the platform at the Sheppard-Yonge station was a mentally disturbed woman wearing an orange jacket pulling liquor bottles out of her bag and offering them for sale at discounted prices. She was offering one bottle which supposedly retails at $150 for only $80. She said she took credit cards as well. How convenient. I’m sure it was all on the up and up, of course. Surely no loyal reader would suspect she pilfered those bottles from the LCBO. But one guy thought something was up and said something to her. She soon sprang to her feet and hit him twice. “Funny bitch, that’s what you are,” she said.
When the subway came, she boarded and again tried to drum up some sales, though she wasn’t getting any takers. In fact, many passengers got up and walked away. Before she got off, one guy walked by and told me he was calling TTC security.
9. As this was going on, an Arabic couple came by. The woman took a seat and the guy proceeded to start feeling her up. A couple of minutes later, she got up and they walked to the other end of the train.
10. Not along after this couple walked away, some sort of heavily-made-up she-male of unknown gender with a naloxone kit hanging from his/her arm boarded and took a seat nearby.
11. If her concerts were still going on, I’d have been inclined to go in the other direction . . .
12. Flashing on the message board at Roywoods in the Union Station food court was a quote from the late Anthony Bourdain stating that it’s always a good thing that more than 50% of Toronto’s residents are not from Canada and that it is Toronto’s unique strength. Let’s just say that I vehemently disagree with his opinion.
13. In the washroom at Union, after doing his business, some guy just briefly dried his hands, then left. Better to have dried piss on your hands than wet piss, I suppose.
14. No mention of Burmese tiger traps or the Acme catalog . . .
15. These maddening taxpayer-funded ads that were all along the Lakeshore West line add more fuel to the speculation that People’s Commissar Ford will be calling a snap election this spring . . .
16. These sandwiches were among the delicacies in one of the vending machines at the Burlington GO station. As they say in Texas, El Paso.
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