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Monday, January 26, 2015

The following story is true

My husband drops me off at the stop for the GO bus during the winter. This saves me 20 minutes and a frigid 2.6 kilometre walk up a semi-rural road.

If my husband truly loved me, he'd let me sit in a nice warm car until the bus was in sight, kind of like the couple I see in the morning at my summer bus stop - the bus stop I was at this morning after my husband and I had to backtrack home to retrieve my phone. Usually I'm dropped off at one stop ahead of my summer stop, but it was easier for him to ditch me at this stop.

I got out of the car and my husband drove off. As I made my way to the bus shelter, the couple in the car motioned to me. The husband rides the same bus. I see him all the time in the summer,. The wife powered down the window. Were they offering me warmth?!

Nope.

"Could you wave to us when the bus is coming"? She asked.

Being so very Canadian, I nodded. She smiled and closed the car window. I went and stood in the bus shelter. For seven very long CWT minutes (measured in Canadian Winter Time), I waited for the bus.

I did what was asked, I waved towards the car when the bus was in sight.

Her husband thanked me as he boarded.

In my head, I imagined them bantering about how cold they thought I was and if I wanted to sit in the car.

The answer is yes.

12 comments:

FRED said...

Really!? They asked you to be a flag man. While they stayed toasty warm? Duuuuuuuuuuuuude...

Anonymous said...

Was their car idling? REPORT THEM!

C.J. Smith said...

Fred, you wrote your other comment on another post and I've deleted it, but to answer your question, my husband starts work at 7. Bus comes at 6:47 (supposed to come at 6:41 but that never happens) so he has to go I'm afraid.

C.J. Smith said...

Clarington does not have an anti-idiling by-law.

Bicky said...

You're a kind soul.

Iona Ford said...

GO Transit provides a bus shelter in rural Clarington? They provide no such amenity for passengers in St. Catharines and Stoney Creek.

C.J. Smith said...

No. DRT does. GO Transit does provide unsheltered concrete benches the more rural it gets.

C.J. Smith said...

No. DRT does. GO Transit does provide unsheltered concrete benches the more rural it gets.

GO Voyageur said...

Benches you say? GO Transit provides no such luxury for St. Catharines. However, Stoney Creek did receive an upgrade to the waiting lounge, but some scoundrel made off with the furniture. Copy/paste to address bar: http://bit.ly/1wyUt0f

outburst said...

We have similar challenges. I drop my wife off at the GO, then take kids to school, then back to the GO.
But you're a better person than I am. I probably would have waved a middle finger at the car as the bus drove away.

MATT said...

I would have asked her if their eyes worked.

I may not always see the TTC bus approaching in the morning (if I'm on my phone, or whatever), but I'm not a fucking idiot and when the other people start shuffling from the spots where they are waiting and form a semi-line to board the approaching bus, I know that the bus is...well, approaching.

C.J. Smith said...

That would work if there were more of us at the stop. Only this man boards at this stop. And at the stop I usually board at, it's just me.