Man, this city can provide some serious laughs, most of which are at the expense of TTC passengers. My commute to work takes about 40 minutes in which I have to take a bus to the subway station. Today on the bus there were a couple of textbook stereotypes, not to be mean because i'm sure this girl is a nice person, but c'mon! this poor girl was reading this book called "lords of chaos" or something to that effect and it had all these dragons, elves, hobbits and shit on the cover. She looked exactly as you are picturing her in your head right now: heavy set, poor complexion, ugly glasses and sweat pants. I was very intrigued with this female comic book guy and it took someone to take it up a notch. Enter the pedophile. This guy gets on the bus a few stops later and sweet sassy molassy if I was a cop I would arrest this guy without any evidence because I am certain he has touched a kid in an innappropriate way at some point in his life, probably animals too. Another textbook case, he again looked just as you are picturing him in your head: pedo glasses (like the ones wheels wore on Degrassi), slimy mustache, jeans that scream "I like young boys!", which i'm sure you can only get at secret pedophile swap meets because you never see anyone but creepy dudes wearing them and of course he had that disgusting perverted pedophile grin. I actually burst out laughing, which caused a few confused looks my way since I had my headphones on and it was probably quite loud.
A lot of people say things happen in three's and today was no different. I'm on the subway about 3 or 4 stops from my destination and a guy, who can only be described as a foreign humpty dumpty gets on and stands right in front of me staring me in the eyes for about 10 seconds. He was pretty short, so we were actually eye to eye and after the awkward stare down decides to plop himself down in between myself and the girl that was on the same bench as me. Like I said he was a rotund individual, so this made it very uncomfortable. Not too mention this guy smelled like what I would think the scene of a car crash between a car full of hard boiled eggs and a car full of mothballs would smell like. The worst part is that there were a bunch of empty seats around, so there was no need of him wedging himself in between us.
Well i'm finally going to have my own room as of January. I've been sleeping on a pullout couch in my friend's bachelor apartment ever since my girlfriend and I broke up in October. Pretty stoked on that one, even if it is back in the very same room we used to share. She is moving out of the apartment and i'm squirreling my way back in. Now I just need a bed, I happened to notice a mattress on the side of the road the other day, so heres to hoping its still there because you haven't lived until you slept on a strangers soiled mattress.
Well thats all for now friends, keep plugging away and one day maybe you can achieve your dream of owning a used mattress!
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Get off my back
You know, lately I feel like I just don't have any free time at all. Sure working 6 days a week doesn't help, but it's not like i'm working challenging jobs or anything. It just seems that i'm in this horrible loop of existence. My only day off is usually spent recovering from destroying my insides with alcohol the previous night and it is really taking a toll on me mentally and physically. I don't know who I am trying to fool in thinking that I can still get drunk on a friday night and get up for work at 7:30 the next morning and not be a complete retard all day. It's definitely time to hibernate for the winter and cut down on my 3 or 4 nights of self medication. I'm going through a tough time right now and drowning my problems with cheap beer is not solving anything. Wow, this shit is getting depressing and that's not what I was going for.
I want to take a minute and discuss a few things that really piss me off. 1) Public transit. I don't even know where to start, I mean it is a very convenient way to get around the city, but my fuck is it ever dreadful. One thing I really hate is the people who think the transit system is there specifically just for them, like the other day when I was on the bus to work and of course I was running late and this shit seems to always happen when you're running late. Just as the bus is pulling away from one of its stops, this jackass runs at the bus with his arms flailing around like he was on fire or just witness someone getting gangbanged by priests and the bus driver stops for him, which is fine because most people do that. What really angered me was he steps on the bus with one foot still outside and starts asking the bus driver all these questions. Now, I had no idea what he was saying, nor did I really give a shit because when i'm on the bus I always have my headphones on so I don't have to deal with the Donnie Depressos and Eugene Ugmos that make up 98% of public transportationists. Where was I? Oh yeah, so after about 3 minutes of the bus not moving and this pecker just holding us up, I paused my music to see what this Asian douchebag was going on about that was making me even later for work. Sure enough this fucking idiot was arguing with the bus driver, but all he was saying in his defense, in that way that Asians do, was "no" "no" "no". What the fuck? You're holding a bus full of people up, so you can argue with bus driver because he disagrees on which brand of shuttlecocks are the best for high school badminton? Fucking inconsiderate piece of shit.
Well since that was pretty long and suprisingly uninteresting i'll briefly touch on #2) Selfish people. I was raised well and despite was borderline alcoholism and self destructive tendencies, I am a good person. I often put myself before others and that's probably why i'm in the position I am in now. But some people just look out for themselves, which I mean is what you have to do in todays toilet of a society we live in, but as much as you have to live for yourself, you have to be considerate for others too. Maybe it's just me and i'm too soft for this hard world, but sometimes it seems like most people would rather kick you while you're down rather than pick you up. Don't get my cynical analysis wrong, there are some good people in my life and some good people out there, but it just seems for every one person that is there to help you out, there is 3 more waiting to use and abuse them as soon as they turn around. Maybe i'm just jaded.
Keep it real. Oh and listen to Teenage Bottlerocket, they rule.
JP
I want to take a minute and discuss a few things that really piss me off. 1) Public transit. I don't even know where to start, I mean it is a very convenient way to get around the city, but my fuck is it ever dreadful. One thing I really hate is the people who think the transit system is there specifically just for them, like the other day when I was on the bus to work and of course I was running late and this shit seems to always happen when you're running late. Just as the bus is pulling away from one of its stops, this jackass runs at the bus with his arms flailing around like he was on fire or just witness someone getting gangbanged by priests and the bus driver stops for him, which is fine because most people do that. What really angered me was he steps on the bus with one foot still outside and starts asking the bus driver all these questions. Now, I had no idea what he was saying, nor did I really give a shit because when i'm on the bus I always have my headphones on so I don't have to deal with the Donnie Depressos and Eugene Ugmos that make up 98% of public transportationists. Where was I? Oh yeah, so after about 3 minutes of the bus not moving and this pecker just holding us up, I paused my music to see what this Asian douchebag was going on about that was making me even later for work. Sure enough this fucking idiot was arguing with the bus driver, but all he was saying in his defense, in that way that Asians do, was "no" "no" "no". What the fuck? You're holding a bus full of people up, so you can argue with bus driver because he disagrees on which brand of shuttlecocks are the best for high school badminton? Fucking inconsiderate piece of shit.
Well since that was pretty long and suprisingly uninteresting i'll briefly touch on #2) Selfish people. I was raised well and despite was borderline alcoholism and self destructive tendencies, I am a good person. I often put myself before others and that's probably why i'm in the position I am in now. But some people just look out for themselves, which I mean is what you have to do in todays toilet of a society we live in, but as much as you have to live for yourself, you have to be considerate for others too. Maybe it's just me and i'm too soft for this hard world, but sometimes it seems like most people would rather kick you while you're down rather than pick you up. Don't get my cynical analysis wrong, there are some good people in my life and some good people out there, but it just seems for every one person that is there to help you out, there is 3 more waiting to use and abuse them as soon as they turn around. Maybe i'm just jaded.
Keep it real. Oh and listen to Teenage Bottlerocket, they rule.
JP
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