TTC etiquette anyone?!

So it's Monday morning at 8:45am on the Queen streetcar... Terci took it with me this morning and hasn't had to in God knows how long becuz she's been car-pooling for so long! We get on and there's absoutely no space! Crowded! And if you've been on the rush hour Queen streetcar, you knoooow it's a mess! we get in and make our way to the centre of the car... holding on to the handrails she looks around at all the heads bobbing around us and says....

"Geez, I feel like I'm gonna catch lice on this thing...."

I burst into tears!

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

That might be one of the funniest things I've heard about the TTC!

Still on the topic, Shellie comes up to me this morning, disgusted and mad....

"Vee! I have something to tell you! This morning on the train coming in... some person was clipping their nails!!! CLIPPING THEIR NAILS!!! I don't know if it was their toe nails, or their finger nails, all I know is that I kept hearing 'clip....clip....clip.........clip' for 5 minutes straight! Wtf!! that's so something you do at home!!!" and she angrily storms off!

ooooooh the TTC! So many disgusting memories of our transit system! We pay $2.75 for people who don't wear deodorant to rub their armpits in our faces on the crowded subway... for people clipping their nails on us.... for people falling asleep, snoring and falling over onto your shoulder.... for people with baby carriages who take up the whole front of the car so that you trip and fall when you try to get on.... for the old people who smell like pee and sit on that front seat.... for the loud teenagers who think it's cool to sit so far apart and scream at eachother.... and for the flashers.........

Which brings me to this one time when I was 16 and a bunch of friends and I went out to Mandarin and Karaoke for someone's birthday!

That was our tradition in highschool! There was about 10 of us... we'd get together at the same Madarin as always... Canada Square! We'd eat to our hearts content and at the end of the night, we'd make this one special treat for the birthday boy or girl! We'd take a cube of jello (and if you've had Mandarin jello.. it's hard as nails!) and we'd dig a hole in the middle and fill it with any liquid on the table! Soy sauce, juice, ketchup, vinegar... whatever! And top it off with a little salt and pepper and whip cream!! and that poor birthday boy or girl had to eat it!!!

I never did though! Don't know how I managed to get away with that!!

Then we'd steal a bunch of those jello cubes and throw them at the windows of the Mandarin outside and watch them stick!! It was hilarious!!!

but there's a point to this story so stick with me... it does involve the TTC!! I promise!!

(Random karaoke pic... have no idea who these people are... just noticed the room was kinda the same as the ones at the karaoke place... and can someone please tell the big girl in the jean skirt that black tights under a mini is not so sexy!!)

So anyway.... after dinner, we'd head over to this karaoke place on Bloor and Bathurst near the Honest Ed's (still there and the best private karaoke in town!! Cheapest too!) On our back home from there, around 1am, the guys had driven to Mandarin and couldn't fit everyone in the car, so a bunch of us girls just took the TTC home.... we're sitting there in one of the empty carts being loud obnoxious girls and we stop at a station.... this man in a long beige trench coat, hat and goggle glasses steps into the cart where we are and opens his trench!! There it was... red, big, hard and throbbing!! He bounched it up and down a few times for us, before the warning chimes of the doors went off, and he quickly jetted out and ran!! That 'thing' was all of a palm away from my face! Ewwwwwwwww! That was the closest I'd been to a penis ever!!! (me being the saint I was at 16!!)

ssssoo yes.... we pay $2.75 for the stinkies, the rude, and the flashers!!!!

Thanks TTC!

That's one childhood memory I won't be soon forgetting!