Monday, November 28, 2005
People with strollers on the TTC and other thoughts
Ok, first of all, I'd like to say that strollers are highly unnecessary and I believe they are detrimental to the development of a child. If a child can't walk, then they are small enough to be carried and should be done so; it keeps the child well-adjusted to be so close to their parents, and a well-adjusted child grows up to be a well-adjusted adult.
If they can walk, then they need to walk. Develop the walking muscles, plus they just discovered it; they probably want to do this new thing they just discovered they are capable of. If they don't, then carry them.
However, it's perfectly understandable that I may be perfectly wrong; after all, to the best of my knowledge, I do not have any children, so it's entirely possible that my ideas are juvenile and immature. One thing I do know, however, is that strollers and TTC buses are a bad bad mix. On my route today, I boarded to see THREE strollers right next to each other. It was all I could do to somehow squeeze through them. Others with bigger loads were not so fortunate and had to stand perilously close to the door. And if that wasn't enough, at the very next stop awaits another lady with another stroller. Fortunately, the driver had o wait for the next bus, then he had the decency to radio the dispatch station or whatever to hurry the next bus. He's a throwback to older TTC drivers; or maybe that's how all the novice ones are.
Other thoughts:
If they can walk, then they need to walk. Develop the walking muscles, plus they just discovered it; they probably want to do this new thing they just discovered they are capable of. If they don't, then carry them.
However, it's perfectly understandable that I may be perfectly wrong; after all, to the best of my knowledge, I do not have any children, so it's entirely possible that my ideas are juvenile and immature. One thing I do know, however, is that strollers and TTC buses are a bad bad mix. On my route today, I boarded to see THREE strollers right next to each other. It was all I could do to somehow squeeze through them. Others with bigger loads were not so fortunate and had to stand perilously close to the door. And if that wasn't enough, at the very next stop awaits another lady with another stroller. Fortunately, the driver had o wait for the next bus, then he had the decency to radio the dispatch station or whatever to hurry the next bus. He's a throwback to older TTC drivers; or maybe that's how all the novice ones are.
Other thoughts:
- Eminem's new song is another classic. Well-written, and surprisingly only one expetive that I could detect. He's still nowhere close to K-Os in the brillinace of his lyrics, but he's better than most.
- Staying on the subject of rap, Liberal MP Dan McTeague wants to ban 50 cent from performing in Canada because he says fiddy promotes a message of violence that the urban youth don't need to hear. I'd love to ask Mr. McTeague to name 3 uban youths that he even knows. It's almost like he's just blowing hot air about a subject he knows nothing about and doesn't really want to fix to gain liking from the population. There's a word to describe him; what am I looking for here; Doctor? No, that's not it. Engineer? No. Comedian? No. Appealing, but no. Insulting to comics as well. What is it...oh, that's right, he's a typical Politician. You know one, you know them all, practically.
- Staying on the subject of politics, in less than an hour we shall know if there's another election coming or not (most likely yes, unless one of the parties backstabs the other, which I can see happening). I personally was never comfortable with the concept of a minority government. It always did, and still does, strike me as an oxymoron; besides, the larger party always caters to the smaller one to preserve the coalition, as we saw here. There's one in India as well, which is showing signs of strain in a much shorter period of time, thank goodness. The state of Indian politics, however, is the subject for another blog entirely; for those who don't follow it, the leader of India is currently an Italian. She is not the official leader, but nearly all the official leaders report to her, with the only notable exception being the president, who is a former nuclear scientist. I shall dedicate a blog to this in the near future, as it causes me no small amount of chagrin.
- Two documentaries on Wal-Mart come out soon, one glorifying it, the other demonizing it. Now I don't know much about Wal-Mart, but I do know that they have the best prices on things, they store everything under one roof, their corporate executives don't take multimillion dollar bonuses each year and their trucks were one of the first to enter New Orleans after Katrina, despite never being able to open a store there without opposition. Unless they have proof that the Wal-Mart owners eat little children for breakfast, I fail to see hwo or why they would demonize such a corporation. I could be wrong; there may be things I don't know. I'd love to be enlightened.
- Kiera Knightley was on Jon Stewart last night. Now she's cute as is, and she was wearing a red dress which didn't hurt, but when she opened her mouth and that british accent spilled out, I dont know how or why, but her cuteness factor went through the roof. I do envy her. One year older than me, and she already has an established career as an A-list star. But I also respect her that she did it all on her own, without any offscreen dramas or onscreen 'wardrobe malfunctions'. Bill Gates, she is not, but at least she's better than Ashlee Simpson.
