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It's Wednesday November the 29 around 1:40PM and

Sardines are actually alive when they are packed, then they kill each other in their tin

The only thing icier than the streets of the lower mainland right now is the glares of those riding the sky train at peak times these last few days. If you want to see what Vancouverites really look like, take a ride from Waterfront to Stadium at 5:30pm and you will wish you were only a tourist of this fine city.

Last night for example at waterfront an elderly man, though he didn't look old, just fat, yelled at a lady next to him for not giving up her seat to him. She quickly played the race card yelling back that he expects her to move only because she isn't white, she was Asian. She also brought up a great point that she wasn't sitting in an elderly/handicap seat so she shouldn't have to move. After all common sense and courtesy are only required when a sign is present. He was rude though and I felt bad for her, but race had nothing to do with it, simply enough, this winter sky train is making us all crazy. Snow brought us the dark ages folks, this really is chaos 2000.

I like Transit and I do it because I am able to and driving would make no difference in time, just sanity. You know a few years ago I had an interview with a man in black and he told me something that is so true I threw up when I choked on the awful thick and meaty truthfulness of it:

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it"
We should get that painted on all the trains.

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Posted by: puddy

November 29, 2006 06:47 PM

I am nine months pregnant (no hiding it), and so far, no one has offered me their seat on transit.

Is the refusal to give up seats a cultural thing? A 21st century thing? A big-city thing? Or just a rude thing?

Posted by: Hadley

November 30, 2006 05:18 AM

I ride the Skytrain all the time and you could have mine in a nanosecond.

Haven't really seen any blatant rudeness yet but now that I've said that I'm sure the trip home this morning will be absolutely vile.

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