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October 15, 2026
Highlights and lowlights from my 117th two-wheeled trek to the Great State of New York:
1. Seated across the aisle on the inbound #308 Grantham bus was a Middle Eastern guy mumbling or chanting something all the way downtown.
2. Of the four sinks in the washroom at the state park, only one had soap. For all the money they must have put into those new facilities, you’d think they’d be able to do a little better.
3. Seated nearby at Panera Bread was a group of three, one of whom was an older guy wearing a Bills jacket. He lamented how a friend of his needed a heart transplant. Heart trouble these days? Who’d have guessed? But I digress. “Your heart affects everything else in your body,” he said. “It’s not like you can just walk in and have a heart ready.”
“Do the hospital shuffle,” said the woman across the table.
“I was working. Everyone gave me tips,” he went on to say. “Then I was walking around with $2 in my pocket for a week and a half.”
The woman across the table said she had spaghetti leftovers last night, but she’s making roast beef sandwiches tonight. Then she bemoaned how the Bills will be on a bye week next week. “No football,” she said. But she liked the Monday night game. “Jahsh had a nice run. Cook had a couple of nice runs.”
The guy then spoke about how his buddy was looking to sell his house. “He hasn’t lived in it since August 1st,” he said. “He thinks he can get $180,000 for it. But it needs some work.”
“Sometimes people have good intentions, but they don’t follow up,” she said after the guy left. Then she told the other woman that she has nothing planned for today other than to bake something. “It would be nice if you had your dog with you,” the other woman said.
4. Behind the counter, a couple of employees were chatting about Facebook. “You’re on my page a lot,” said one of them.
5. Elsewhere, an older guy was talking to an AI chatbot on his phone, asking about hydrogen and water vapor.
6. As opposed to unfriendly home shopping . . .
7. Nice to see that not everyone in the Great State of New York is a Dumb-o-crat . . .
8. Another scene that just screams, “Niagara Falls, New York” . . .
9. Just say no . . .
10. Seated behind me at the Niagara Falls (Canada) Bus Terminal was a couple of little kids. “There’s gum under my chair,” one whispered to the other. No shit.
11. Among those waiting in line for the women’s washroom was an older Asian DWAM™. And coming out was this DWAM™. They’re still around. And there’s no hope for them. Their brains are permanently broken.
12. The chunky woman behind the counter in the bus terminal had a scowl on her face that definitely suggested she doesn’t like her job. But who could blame her with all the idiots coming in asking stupid questions?
13. Boarding the GO bus in Niagara Falls was someone who asked the driver if he was going to Burlington. And upon my arrival at Fairview Mall, the first one who boarded was an Asian woman who asked the driver if he was going to Burlington. Stop me if you’ve seen this movie before.
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