old man: can i ask you something?
friend: uh... sure? *is prepared to say she has no change*
old man: wanna hook up?
friend: NO! runs away
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on the bus. looks up in light of commotion at the front of the bus
passenger: are you gonna slap me!??
bus driver: No, i'm not going to slap you, but get off my bus.
passenger: are you going to slap me?!?!?!?!
bus driver: GET OFF MY BUS!
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on the bus
passenger/old man: giggles maniacally the whole time i'm on the bus while rocking back and forth
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waiting for the GO Bus
standing next to a perfectly normally looking man
man: perks up and says in a high pitched voice
HAMILTON DOESNT NEED MORE POLITICIANS, WE NEED MORE CRIMINALS!
man goes back to "normal"
guy in front of me texts: yo the people here are messed up
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on the bus
there's a lady bug on a boy's jacket. He screams.
mother: it's just a lady bug. Shut up. you're so stupid - it's not going to hurt you
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Famous for its blue collar society and low income families, it's no wonder people think that Hamilton is so ghetto. It seems like everywhere you go, you'll find obesity to the point where people move with electric wheelchairs/mobile chairs. Every other person you meet on the street is smoking something and half the mothers, you can't really tell if it was their first choice or not to be mothers. I did a little research and Hamilton is consistently lower in literacy, reading skills of students, higher in hospitalization of children due to accidents, and higher in teen pregnancy.
Closer to mac, however, you see none of these problems. People look a lot more educated, you rarely see smokers, no young mothers - basically it truly is a student town over in that area.
It's pretty amazing yet disturbing to see how there can be such a distinct line (in this case, highway 403) between the wealthy and the poor. I know we all say that we're students and we're poor, but I realize so much more, now, that even being able to go to school and have enough money to pay for rent, tuition, the works - it's a blessing.
I really want to see if there's this distinct of a divide in Toronto.
1 comment:
oh my goodness audrey, that made me laugh so hard!! hahaha i love the one about the guy who perked up and someone texted about it HAHAH...
today, on the bus, two asian ladies were pushing each other as they got onto the bus..and one of them got so mad that she called the other one a "Beeeeach!!"
:)
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