Excitement on the Streetcar

It's never dull on the Spadina streetcar. A few months back, it was two ladies arguing about not pushing other people. Today, it's about butting in line to get on the streetcar. From what I gathered, this black dude butted in from of this brown dude in trying to get onto the streetcar from the front doors. Brown dude got upset about it and mouthed off to the black dude as he was heading to the single seats. It goes something like this:

Brown dude: Hey man, think you're so tough butting in front of the line, why don't you grow up, you're not a kid. Learn some manners. (this goes on for a little bit more before black dude gets up and heads back down the front of the street car)

Black dude: What you say to me? Do you know who the f*** I am? Remember Just Desserts? Remember Just Desserts? That was me and my crew. (goes on and on about his street creds. And this goes on for another 2-3 minutes of heated trading of verbal barbs, until the driver tells them to shut up as he was about to move from the station.

And I was thinking to myself, why on earth would you even say you were involved in that homicidal case? Was he aching for time at the nearest correctional facility?
Well no one can say it's ever dull on the 501 car. :)

Sorry, You Don't Have Any Canadian Experiences

While racism in Canada isn't blatantly out there and in your face unlike other countries. Racism is alive and well, it's just on the down-low and subtle. And it is not just eminating from one group against others, but it's coming from all groups to other groups. While we don't have burning crosses, noose carrying lynch mobs and bedsheet wearing dimwits, racism is still around in the great white north. I mean, just listen to the chinese population talk about other groups.

Ask any friend who are immigrants who have directly experienced or have relatives who have received this phrase in a job interview, " sorry, you don't have any canadian experiences." Can't hire you, cuz you have an accent, look un-canadian, didn't work or get educated in Canada. What a load of crock. So all immigrants should go watch a hockey game, eat donuts and drink coffee at Timmys and go on pogey at least once, maybe then they will get canadian experiences? *lol

Maybe all Commonwealth member countries should try that line when Canadians apply to jobs in their countries. "Sorry man, you don't have Jamaican experiences."

Peeves
Based on what I've experienced and seen, nothing annoys me more than excess aloofness, a frack-all attitude added with a touch of arrogance/ cockiness.

Simply put, this would be a person who is only concerned with their own comfort and well-being. This is their only concern and they would "raise" a care if and only if their comfortness is intruded upon. Anything else can happen and they wouldn't care whether it was an external cause or one that was of their own doing (hence the frack-all attitude). Added to this swirl of ad nauseum, is the need to brag and bring up one's self-worth either to one's self or to others. As well as the need to be the centre of attention, through various forms, such as tales that seem a bit implausible.

It's more annoying when they are also extremely transparent. But I guess that's something I still need to learn from God, to accept all the good along with the annoying. Perhaps they are called patience and grace.