Maybe it’s just this area of BC, but Vancouver is more alien to me than any place I have been. Maybe I have just been gone too long. but How did we go from this sign:

(Remember these, short, made sense, didn’t want the driver to be distracted and crash…. ahh good times.)

to This sign: (please don’t beat on the driver)

Have we really gotten that more violent since I left Canada?

I always took the second sign as a precautionary measure. All the bus drivers have been pretty cool, who would want to hurt these guys and gals that take us places we can’t go otherwise? But last night changed that for me…

I was taking the last direct bus home last night when half way through the trip someone came on, and stood at the front of the bus. The bus driver politely asked him to sit down. But the man’s Pass-card didn’t work on the new system. So he yelled at the driver. The bus driver gave him the ok to sit down anyways. the man refused. The bus driver stopped the bus at the next stop and asked the man to sit down, as it is dangerous to be standing at the front door of a moving bus. When the man continued to yell, the bus driver opened the door and asked him to leave.

The man threw his fist up in a boxing stance and refused.so we sat thee 1/2 way home as the man threatened to hit the driver and the driver calmly called transit police to come get the man. A passenger tried to reason with the man, but he didn’t want anything but to fight the driver, and wouldn’t “sitting like a chicken-$#!t”

I shake my head in shame.

I used to be very proud of my country, but living in this part of Canada makes me ashamed. The violence, the attitude, the lack of respect for each other.

3 times in the last month we have been awoken by a fire alarm close to midnight. Now the Rumor was that someone had been stuck in the elevator each time and that was their cry for help. Well we’ve had the repair man by several times, no victims of elevator-human relations….

Turns out there is a couple upstairs that whenever they get into a fight, it’s not enough for the husband / boyfriend to storm out and cool off, no he’s got to pull the fire alarm. Management has asked them to leave.

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