There was a Friday in November that I considered to be among the worst days of my life. I had bought $100 worth of presents for Christmas, and brought food to work in my Ratatouille bowl. That night, Prashanta picked me up from work, and we went downtown to eat and then meet up with some friends. While at the restaurant, somehow, someone had broken into the car and stolen the gifts and my backpack, and even the spare change ubiquitous to any car. At the time, I thought I had 6 DS games and my mp3 player in by backpack. All I could think about was how rare The World Ends with You is and that I wouldn't want to restart it from scratch. Or how many crosswords I had completed in Crosswords DS, or how I was going to give my mp3 player away whenever I break down and boy an iPod touch.
Fortunately, I found my mp3 player while cleaning my room! Suddenly, that day didn't seem so bad. And the other day, I was cleaning out my locker at work where low and behold I found my DS games, complete in the game case Vivi brought back for me from Japan. I was so excited at that moment, you could have compared it to a kid getting what he or she really wanted for Christmas. Except for maybe the Nintendo64 kid.
But I was still out a $50 bag. And gifts that I had to re-buy. I guess it all worked out, mostly.
Seemingly out of nowhere, the Transit Union wants to end the strike. If all goes according to (whoever's) plan (this is), buses could be back as early as the end of next week. I'm excited at the prospect of progress, this being the first possibility of such in a month, but I can't help but wonder why now. Why not on day 1 of the strike? Why not before the strike? Why not 2 weeks from now? Are the picket lines getting a bit chilly these days? Are union members starting to suffer from not working for 6 weeks? This comes just as withdrawl dates from classes are here. I know people who are dropping courses just because they aren't able to get to class. Plus, the city is just now lowering downtown parking rates to help out.
The city better use this oppotunity to do what they can to get buses back on the roads. And then both sides will have to work hard at earning everyone else's trust - and even respect. I'd say it's pretty likely that we'll get some ads like this favourite of mine:
Fortunately, I found my mp3 player while cleaning my room! Suddenly, that day didn't seem so bad. And the other day, I was cleaning out my locker at work where low and behold I found my DS games, complete in the game case Vivi brought back for me from Japan. I was so excited at that moment, you could have compared it to a kid getting what he or she really wanted for Christmas. Except for maybe the Nintendo64 kid.
But I was still out a $50 bag. And gifts that I had to re-buy. I guess it all worked out, mostly.
Seemingly out of nowhere, the Transit Union wants to end the strike. If all goes according to (whoever's) plan (this is), buses could be back as early as the end of next week. I'm excited at the prospect of progress, this being the first possibility of such in a month, but I can't help but wonder why now. Why not on day 1 of the strike? Why not before the strike? Why not 2 weeks from now? Are the picket lines getting a bit chilly these days? Are union members starting to suffer from not working for 6 weeks? This comes just as withdrawl dates from classes are here. I know people who are dropping courses just because they aren't able to get to class. Plus, the city is just now lowering downtown parking rates to help out.
The city better use this oppotunity to do what they can to get buses back on the roads. And then both sides will have to work hard at earning everyone else's trust - and even respect. I'd say it's pretty likely that we'll get some ads like this favourite of mine:
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