Archive for April, 2008

I want to go home.

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
  1. I made $27.50 under the table doing nothing today at work.
  2. I get to come in late on Friday because there will be no power.
  3. I have a ride to Ottawa for May 24-25.
  4. Brown rice fasts are extremely boring. I give up after 48 hours.

“I hate Chapters Customers” …. circa 2001(?)

Sunday, April 27th, 2008


Much like the last entry. I will still forever be baffled by parents who think its fine and dandy to leave their kids in a store and go somewhere else, even if it’s the other side of the store, especially when these children are young enough that if you left them home for 30 minutes you would have been arrested. And considering the store is larger than many of these people’s homes… I think the same rules should apply. Even to this day.

the field trip people
ah…..the importance of family time. family is important to chapters. we understand ya’ll like to have time together and do things as a family. but why must you make it chapters? why must a family of 5 come in with their picnic basket and set up dinner on a display table? then again back up to the babysitters club. much of that is repeated here so i won’t write as much. but at the same time they will spend the evening here, anywhere from 3 to 5 hours, and leave only at the end of the night when we kick them out.even then, you will have the mother who must stay inside the store with her child/children while the father gets the car, because the child is sick with a fever and the flu and a cold and rabies (ok ok not rabies…or that i know of) and can’t be standing outside in the cold. yes. PEOPLE IF YOUR CHILDREN ARE SICK WHY ARE YOU BRINGING THEM INTO SUCH A PUBLIC PLACE? not only are you keeping your child from getting better, you’re making everyone else sick, LIKE THE CHAPTERS WORKERS!

TTC is on strike!…. Again!

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Alright. So at 10:50pm after having run over a wild rabbit to get a set of keys to a not-so-close friend 40 minutes away because a closer friend of mine is further away and stuck in whatever god-forsaken-town that he happens to be stuck in, I hear over the radio “TTC is on strike! TTC is on strike!”

As many people in the city, I’m probably wondering “What the fuck?! Didn’t they avert this last week?!” and apperently not. Our promise of having 48 hours notice of a strike has since gone out the window. Since we were promised 48 hours notice the first time around, meaning talks needed to have finished Thursday night if there was to be a strike Monday.

Instead, we find out that talks end Friday night, for a Saturday morning strike.

I was extremely happy I owned and drove a car.

As I always am.

Because I was thinking of all the party-goers that are currently in downtown Toronto, the club district or other bars and pubs and house parties that are normal for a warm Friday night, thinking “How many of these bar owners heard the news, and are going to let their patrons know they will be out a designated driver for the ride home if they should stay past midnight?” At the same time thinking “What right-minded bar owner is going to drive away his bread and butter 2 hours earlier than normal because likely many of them will leave in order to catch a ride home?”

Alas, I say what I always say. Unions generally suck. They have way too much power. I think all the striking TTC employees should be fired and hire new people to replace them that won’t bother us so much.

Threats of a strike every two years is just stupidity. You are the life-blood of Toronto. Without you obviously the city stops. When we had the big-ass power blackout three years ago, you bitched and moaned about not having power, that you weren’t deemed an emergency service. And without you the city stops dead in their tracks.

Yes, well emergency services are not allowed to strike.

You should not be allowed to strike.

TTC, fuck off.

Salt water flushes suck.

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

After downing the disgusting substance, I also had the unfortunate experience of having it come out both ends.

At the same time.

1. The TTC has been on strike for the past 13 minutes.

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

2. I killed something tonight on an emergency run of epic proportions.
3. It is exceedingly difficult to throw up out of a moving vehicle while you are driving it.