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Umbrella Etiquette
2007-01-25 22:38:02
Walking down the busy streets of downtown Vancouver on any given rainy day is like walking down the streets of Pamplona during the running of the bulls. The likelyhood of getting gored by an umbrella is pretty high. Ducking and dodging to absent minded umbrella donners has become an extreme sport that I never signed up for. But because I work downtown where narrow sidewalks and deep puddles keep me in harms way, I have resorted to Chuck Norris moves to keep me dry and safe - but is that necessary? When it rains, people become vicious. No one is safe without a costco sized umbrella anymore. But why don’t people understand that when carrying an umbrella they are not the only ones on those narrow sidewalks. How can they still keep their head down not realizing who they’re bumping with their umbrella. How is it that those of us not carrying an umbrella can get pushed/hustled/herded into the rain from under the dry shelter of an awning by an umbrella carrier. DoesnR...
More About: Etiquette , Umbrella , Ique , Ella

Yield, it?s the law.
2007-01-25 22:38:02
Were you aware that the little yellow triangle on the back of every translink bus symbolizes a giant middle finger to the general public? Yielding to a translink bus is the law, they have the right to cut you off in traffic, to run a red light, to block an intersection, to verbally assault paying passengers. That little yellow triangle removes any accountability. Like James Bond, Translink operators have a license to kill. So let’s see what the News media are saying about all this. As 2010 approaches, we’re hearing lots on the development of new train lines, more buses purchased and more operators needed for the growing fleet at Translink. There are also stories covering Translink bus driver abuse: in fact the Coast Mountain Bus company says there’s an average of one instance of driver abuse per day. We’ve even seen terrorist-like incidents on the news involving chemical weapons and anonymous bomb threats. Wow, how could anyone be so enraged as to thr...
More About: The Law

East Hastings
2007-01-25 22:38:02
As you will gather, from the tone of this blog, I am not a big fan of drug peddlers, prostitutes, street crime, and it’s impact on our communities. I wish I had a giant broom to clean everything up but the solution is much more complex and requires an in depth understanding of this whole ecological system of crime. I hate to say it, but I think just as we are victims to their crime, they are victims to our neglect. Every once in a while I take a walk along East Hastings at a very busy time for foot traffic and drug dealing. I want to see what they see, street level. However, I don’t see much, because eye contact is a lead up to interaction which at this point, I’m not sure is safe with my lack of experience. So I race through, up one side of hastings, back the other, and catch glimpse after glimpse of addicts, pushers, pimps and hoes doing their thing. Everyone’s eyes dart around, keeping their actions secretive and inconspicous. Ironically, no one lo...
More About: Sting