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[Gregory]

HSR Bus Freak, on Oct 20 2008, 11:21 PM, said:

LMAO! Sounds like he was trying to pick you up on his bike!

Well today, I saw a very strange guy at work that I am used to seeing, but havent saw him since summer. So he walks into the the store and goes to the washroom. Now usually when he comes in he HATES when people use their manners to him. If you say "thank you" or "please" he will simply yell out "I EXPLAIN!" Mind you, he is a foreign man so thats why he sounds like that, but speaks good english. When he comes out of the washroom, I call my friend over and "bet" him that this man will get mad at me for saying my manners, because my buddy is new at my work. Here is an *almost* word for word re-ennactment of the convo:

Me- "Can I help you?"
*he walks to the counter.
Me- How are you?
Customer- "I am good.. I EXPLAIN!"
*pauses for about 15 seconds..
Customer- "How are you?"
Me- "I am pretty good!"
Customer- I WASN'T TALKING TO YOU, I WAS ASKING MYSELF!"
Me- "Okay, so what can I get you?"
Customer- "Just an apple fritter."
Me- "Anything else?"
Customer- "Noo."
*he hands me a dollar."
Me- "Thank you!"
Customer- "I EXXXXPLAINNNN!!!"
Me- "Have a goodnight sir!"
Customer- I explain.. (*says it calmly..)
*walks out of the store..

Well me and my friend had a HUGGGE laugh for like 10 minutes!

Its ALMOST like the "I KILL YOU!" line in the video "Achmed the Dead Terrorist."

Wow..

[Cogeno]

Was walking down the sidewalk in front of Cite-Des-Jeunes, and somehow managed to walk through a bunch of pylons without really noticing it until I felt something mushy under me.

Oops...

[vid]

Last night I was up by my brothers house, and the street he lives on was just rebuilt, and some kids brought all the traffic tube things (the large cylindrical orange and black things) into the middle of the left west bound lanes. Every once in a while a driver would end up driving westbound in the east bound lane.

[wil9402]

I mentioned this in another thread in the GTA section. On Friday morning while riding the bus I saw a fox run across the street and walk towards some houses.

[TTC H series subway]

I once saw a wild turkey in front of my house.

[Cogeno]

TTC H series subway, on Oct 28 2008, 08:54 PM, said:

I once saw a wild turkey in front of my house.

We have a whole family of them that come in and out as they please. Mind you, I suppose it's more of a shocker when you live in the city.

[TWCS]

TTC H series subway, on Oct 28 2008, 08:54 PM, said:

I once saw a wild turkey in front of my house.

only once? i live in the land of turkeys, i almost hit them every morning on my way into work.

[vid]

No turkeys here, but I know someone who hit and killed a cougar even though the ministry of natural resources maintains they don't exist here.

Cougar sitings in Northern Ontario, where the government insists cougars don't exist, are up about five times this year, and almost everyone I know who works or spends a fair amount of time in the bush has seen one.

[R. McConnell]

M. Boone, on Oct 28 2008, 06:05 PM, said:

only once? i live in the land of turkeys, i almost hit them every morning on my way into work.

I see them quite often in Rhode Island.

[Orion VIII]

Turkey vultures are very common around the Niagara Escarpment, and will flail their wings at passing cars while they eat roadkill!

[Gregory]

Orion VIII, on Oct 30 2008, 04:32 PM, said:

Turkey vultures are very common around the Niagara Escarpment, and will flail their wings at passing cars while they eat roadkill!

Thanks for that ever-so-lovely visual.

[vid]

While my family was driving to camp once, a partridge flew into the car's windshield. We ate it for dinner.

Cue the banjos!!!

[ttcgeek]

Seeing 5868 come into Sherbourne with the passenger side of the car tagged.

[TTC H series subway]

M. Boone, on Oct 28 2008, 10:05 PM, said:

only once? i live in the land of turkeys, i almost hit them every morning on my way into work.

I only saw them once in front of my house. They are usually at my school.

[Cogeno]

Oh yeah, we also have a deer at my college in Hull that comes in and out from time to time.

[mersar]

Cogeno, on Nov 1 2008, 07:35 AM, said:

Oh yeah, we also have a deer at my college in Hull that comes in and out from time to time.

Up until this past year we had a family of deer that lived on the University of Calgary campus. Numerous times in my first years there that you'd walk out across the open area east of the administration building and see them laying in the grass, however I didn't see them at all this year. Now we only have the couple dozen rabbits that call the campus home, they don't really cause much problem that I've heard about, they are extremely accustomed to being around people to the extent you can walk past them only 2 or 3 feet away and they won't even move.

[Cogeno]

- How about how I seem to be the only one incapable of wearing a poppy without stabbing myself numerous times?

[vid]

You gotta pinch the shirt or whatever so that when you put the poppy through it, the pointy end is on the outside of the fabric.

[Cogeno]

vid, on Nov 2 2008, 02:08 PM, said:

You gotta pinch the shirt or whatever so that when you put the poppy through it, the pointy end is on the outside of the fabric.

I do that, and then it eventually works it way out and I move, and the pointy end is now inside my chest.

[vid]

Then replace it with a safety pin or something. Maybe use tape?