DEADLY ENCOUNTER
This is a letter to the skateboarder who knocked the elderly man off his scooter in mid-August at the crosswalk at Drake and Hornby. You didn’t kill him. Not really. Cuz, hey dude, he was still breathing as you sped away. Not that you knew that, because you didn’t stop to check. Yeah, no biggie, he only broke his shoulder. Unfortunately, he ended up having to stay in the hospital for a month. And sad to say, he has now died. But, like, that wasn’t your fault, right? –Sharon Brady-Browne
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WATER OVER THE BRIDGE
Re: “,” Nov. 2, 2017
As someone who has walked home from work over the Burrard Street Bridge for almost 30 years, I find it hard to believe that Ron was “deadly afraid” to walk over it before the “renovations.” I have never felt that my life was in peril while crossing the bridge whether by foot or bicycle. I absolutely hate the suicide barriers that block a good part of the view and, in fact, the only benefit to me and other pedestrians is that the bike lanes now prevent us from being splashed with puddled rainwater from cars and buses. –Burrard Bridge Lifer
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TAKE A SEAT
Today, on the No. 5 Robson bus, a woman was allowed on at the traffic light, just after it left the first stop (Cambie & Dunsmuir). She didn’t seem to pay, and then proceeded to sit down in the two seats just in front of the rear door.
I say she sat down in the “two seats,” as after just a few stops, as the bus filled up, I noticed that people were asking to sit there (she had her bag on the seat next to her) and she kept telling people that she was “saving” it for someone who was boarding in a few stops.Ěý
WTF is wrong with people?! And by “people,” I mean both her and those who asked to sit and simply capitulated when she said no.
Why do people allow rude, ignorant people like this woman to rule? Are we so afraid as a society that we can’t simply stand up to someone who won’t let us sit down?!
Before you ask why I didn’t say something, I was seated and had not interacted with the woman. Had I wanted/needed to sit, however, I would simply have asked one more time (to be sure I heard what I thought I heard) then, upon confirmation, have simply picked up her bag and put it in her lap and sat my tired ass down! –A˛Ô´Ç˛Ô˛âłľ´ÇłÜ˛ő
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STILL SINGLE
Re: “,” Nov. 2, 2017
Hopefully date 201 is “the one” for Ashley; she’s put the time in and deserves it. But sometimes when you think everyone else is an asshole, it’s just you. –Scottie Rentool
While I applaud her honesty, I wonder what she is actually looking for. It seems, at her age, she would have narrowed her strengths in a relationship and be focusing on someone who would complement her. Maybe she is a dreamer and just likes the fact that meeting new men all the time is interesting and dynamic? Restless Heart Syndrome is a thing... –Brittany Devries
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