Crotch texters
I see so many people staring at their crotches when sitting in traffic. Both genders are doing it, but I see more men. One guess is that they are touching themselves while waiting for the light to change. Some people have said, No they are not pleasuring themselves, they are texting! I saw one guy drive all the way down Granville and at every light he was staring down at his crotch. Although fun, that much self-pleasuring is demanding, especially when driving. This might explain why many men in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»do not approach women to ask them out they do not need to. Maybe the guys are impotent from too much crotch texting and just dont have it in them to make the effort. Women, if a guy asks you out, be thankful he is not a crotch texter and still has balls.
Tracy
Walk right
This is directed at the girl who bumped into me on Burrard while she was talking on her phone and I was checking email on mine. How do I know she bumped into me and not vice versa? Because she was walking to her left and I was walking (the correct way) to my right. Even though I was using my phone, I am able to take my eyes away from it and scan ahead. I saw her coming, but unless youre handicapped or old, I refuse to make way for someone who doesnt know the proper side of the street down which to walk. She yelled at me to look up and watch where I was going (both of which I was actually doing). Perhaps she needs to learn how to walk properly.
Canadian Guy, sent from his iPhone (while walking?)
Dare to dream
There is time to make Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»a more friendly place. For this to happen three groups need to give a little to get along: pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers. (I am all three). To my walking friends: if you see a car sitting at a pedestrian-controlled crosswalk, just hit the button for them. Dont walk into traffic as if cars can stop on a dime when there are two inches of leaves on the road. When you get hit, you can scream, I had the right of way! all you want from your hospital bed. To my biking friends, mainly EVHs (East Van Hipsters): it is Winter; please put a friggin light on your bike. For the record, your fixie bike, black skinny jeans, suppa cool attitude and headphones give you NO superpowers. To my driving friends: be a bit courteous. Stop trying to perfect the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»speed up by not letting me into traffic. As well, the thank you wave is not found in any driving manual, but if I make your day a bit easier by letting you in, just acknowledge it, please. Interact, talk, listen to people in your city and maybe, just maybe, we can be the Most Livable city again soon.
Keith
Plastic not-so-fantastic
Whats with daytime beverages being served in plastic cups? Its bad enough that I have to drink my Scotch and Dry from a crappy, faux short glass at most of the bars in this town because people cant control themselves at night, but there is no excuse (not even plain old cost-cutting) to serve sober customers their OJs and waters in cups that naturally retain the smell of whatever detergent youve cleaned them with. That, and plastic is bad for you, especially as it ages, so lets collectively remove it from our lives as much as possible and go back to drinking out of nice, weighty, odorless GLASS glasses like the rest of the civilized world. Im talking to you, Joes Grill. Gross.
Anonymous, The West End
