Why are there more people on transit on hot, sunny days? On days when road condition are best and driving is most pleasant, people pack themselves like sweating monkeys piled in the back of Congolese poacher's truck, bound to give their lives in a cosmetics lab for the greater glory of better making nines of threes. What is the rationale behind this?
As the Skytrain rolled past the 1960's concrete towers near Lougheed Mall I started thinking about how these buildings were the inspiration for the apartments-on-stalks in the Jetsons.
I feel like I drank a pint of gin, smoked half a pack of cigarettes, and stayed up until 3 a.m. last night - only I didn't. I just caught another bug on the moble petri-dish that is public transit. I swear I am going to start wearing NBC gear or a hazmat bunny-suit during my commute. That or buy a car.
Proles, plebs and petit-bourgeios... unwashed masses, indeed.
Something I overheard on the Skytrain the other day made it on "
As the Skytrain rolled past the 1960's concrete towers near Lougheed Mall I started thinking about how these buildings were the inspiration for the apartments-on-stalks in the Jetsons.
I feel like I drank a pint of gin, smoked half a pack of cigarettes, and stayed up until 3 a.m. last night - only I didn't. I just caught another bug on the moble petri-dish that is public transit. I swear I am going to start wearing NBC gear or a hazmat bunny-suit during my commute. That or buy a car.
Dodge the onslaught of zombie commuters coming into town from the suburbs. 