Over the River CI
October 24, 2025
Highlights and lowlights from my 101st two-wheeled trek to the Great State of New York:
1. Dear driver of the #110 bus (bus number 1936): You seemed to be in an awfully powerful hurry to sit and wait at the Main & Ferry hub, but there was a woman on Drummond Road a half block from a stop near Lundy’s Lane madly waving her arms to try to get your attention. She even stepped off the curb to make herself more visible, yet you just blew her off and proceeded to royally cut off one of your colleagues who was driving the #103 as you made a left turn onto Culp Street. OK, I know you didn’t have to pick her up. Your responsibility is to pick people up at the stop and she wasn’t there. But really? Hold yourself to a higher standard. This isn’t Winnipeg.
2. The CBP officer who served me at U.S. Customs at the Rainbow Bridge asked, “Where are we going today?” I didn’t know he was planning on accompanying me.
3. Newly installed “art” at the corner of Main Street and Portage Road:
4. Seated across from me at Panera Bread was a woman who could barely take enough attention away from her phone to munch on her toasted bagel with cream cheese. I know I’ve said it before, but what’s so damned important on those phones that people can’t live without for even a microsecond?
5. If the CBP followed me to Panera Bread as they did in my last visit there, they learned from their past mistakes and the officer did a better job disguising him/herself.
6. It is hard to believe that there was a time in which people fled to Canada for freedom. Today, Canadians are fleeing to the U.S. in search of freedom.
7. At the counter in the gift shop at Niagara Falls State Park was an Amish guy who had picked out a couple of calendars. As he dug some bills out of his wallet to pay for them, the clerk pointed him to the sign in front of the register. Cashless operations. He invited the guy to use the reverse ATM around the corner. “So you don’t take cash?” the Amish guy asked. “No.” The Amish guy put the bills back in his wallet and left the store, leaving the clerk to put the merchandise back on the shelf. All while I was sporting an ear-to-ear grin. No cash, no business.
8. While in the washroom at the state park, a guy went into the stall next door. As he started pissing, he shouted, “Showtime!”
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