Over the River XC
May 8, 2025
Highlights and lowlights from my 90th two-wheeled trek to the Great State of New York:
1. They’re going to have to install a bigger pole at Fairview Mall if Metrolinx decides to add any more derivatives of the #12 route . . .
2. While parked at the Fairview Mall layover yard, the driver of the #312 bus said to the driver of the #314 bus, “See you downtown. Don’t forget about me, eh.”
3. Ahead of me in line waiting to board the #110 bus at Morrison & Dorchester was an Asian woman who told the driver she “wasn’t familiar with the bus” and proceeded to shove her phone showing some location on Google Maps in the driver’s face asking him if he went there. Upon taking a seat, she got on her phone and asked someone on the other end, “Could you make sure they’re ready by 7:50? By 7:48, they should be coming down to eat.” She went on to say, “Patsy is such a bitch. Instead of saying sorry, she freaks out.”
4. Someone who clearly doesn’t like getting tailgated . . .
5. Along Ferry Avenue waiting for a school bus were two young girls, both wearing dipshit masks. Outside. The latter girl was also engrossed with her smartphone. School-age children need neither dipshit masks nor smartphones. Same goes for adults, by the way.
6. A middle-aged woman seated in a corner at Panera Bread on Military Road began talking to one of the older guys seated nearby with a beer belly so large that he looked pregnant. She said she hadn’t been horseback riding for a long time and is still sore.
7. One of the older guys seated behind me seemed relieved that he finally found out where the Town of Tonawanda’s fire department is located. He went on to say that he figures former Buffalo mayor Byron Brown is getting $300,000/year in his new job as the CEO of Batavia Downs and that the City of Buffalo is trying to implement a new tax grab to make up for Covid. Later, in regards to Trump’s rhetoric of adding Canada as the 51st state, he said, “Like we’d want them. There’s nothing Canada has that we want.”
8. For customers with a large order, they give you a square device about the same size as a smartphone that buzzes repeatedly and whose red lights flash when the order is ready. Before I saw what was going on, I thought some kind of fire alarm had gone off.
9. There’s an overhead sign at the self-serve beverage counter that reads, “Endless drinks on tap.” So some dude with fluorescent green hair took it literally and filled up two large milk jugs with orange juice before leaving the restaurant. Next time you wonder why it costs so much to eat out . . .
10. Relax & recharge at one of the growing number of empty storefronts in the fashion outlet mall . . .
11. Good seats still available in the food court . . .
12. It was nice to see they had a store specifically to honor their Canadian neighbors . . .
13. I sense a divorce in someone’s immediate future. Call it a hunch.
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