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March 22, 2003
Public Transportation and Cats
Recently I've had the good fortune of using Southern Ontario's public transportation system. Although it lacks the frequency and efficiency of its Japanese counterpart, I found it convenient and cost effective.
Thursday night I took the bus, subway and train to get from my house to Rick and Vanessa's house in Etobicoke. We (Rick, Vanessa, Brad and Rafi) went to St Hubert for a disappointingly mediocre meal. After dinner, Brad and Rafi went home and I decided to crash there.
I took an allergy pill so their cats wouldn't bother me, but my clothes had somehow attracted cat hair in my sleep, making my runny nose linger all day.
The next day I took the train to downtown Toronto. I was to meet friends Dav and Liza after they got off work, so I wandered about the mall at Union station. I saw a sign for the blood donor clinic, so I decided to drop in. I used to give regularly, but couldn't find the time with my busy schedule. Since I had time to kill anyway, I walked towards the clinic, only to be accosted by two girls with a laptop.
The girls were demonstrating some new wireless technology from Intel, so I stopped to take a look. The demo crashed while I was watching it (yes, I'm that good a tester), so they gave me a pen and a free bus ticket for my time.
After giving blood and a bit of shopping, I met up with Dav and Liza, went for Thai, had a few beers, and I once again decided to spend the night in Toronto. Of course both Liza and Dav have cats, and of course their cats' hair became fused to my sweater, so I suffered form post-cat contact until I got home (via my free ticket).
Who says you need a car to have a good time?