Quote of the Day
Vancouver NPA city councilor Kim Capri said said she would "never characterize Vancouver as an uncivil city."
Hahahahaha...
This quote from a Province news story on the incivility of Canadian cities, Vancouver ranking right up there at the top.
My Friday Province column began with this sentence: The loss of manners is a shame; the loss of civility is a tragedy.
I received the largest response ever to that column. Apparently I touched some communal nerve.
Today's report is on the money and Kim Capripant's reaction is, as always, totally out of synch with the world in which she purports to live.
4 comments:
Hi, David: I'm not surprised that your column on manners received a high response; my only question is: Why are the writers so well hidden in our communities?
I have long said to anyone who would listen - not many - that most of our problems on the roads and elsewhere would disappear if only people would 'read the traffic flow' and be thoughtful and polite to one another - no matter who has the right of way.
Intersection crashes (note, crashes not 'accidents') happen because someone applied the "after me. you're next" principle. No signaling, says 'I don't care a fig about you.' Overtaking on the right and cutting in? 'I'm too important to sit behind you...or behind the guy in front, or the gal in front of him...so that I can crash through an early red.'
And don't get me started on the 30-something hoodlum who tailgates because one has the nerve to attempt to drive the speed limit. Or the entitled fitness Moms who jaywalk their two young daughters, or a stroller!, across the road, in front of a car, rather than use the crosswlk 15 feet away...guess she ran herself out of energy, eh? Or the pedestrians who keep right on walking against a red hand, until a driver loses the chance to make a turn on a green light.
Or the cyclists who....
I've had enough - and I'm sure your readers have too.
Bottom line? If parents are too ignorant, or lazy, to set an example and teach their offspring some manners, then school rules should be drummed into the kids at school. If this doesn't happen, then we descend into anarchy - everyone for him- or herself.
Liz J.
PS: Here comes another one - a headline in today's Province suggests the driver who killed (murdered) the couple who were returning from their daughter's engagement party, was...hold your breath...banned from driving.
Based on your description of Ms. Capri, David, whenever I now hear her name, I can't get it out of my mind that the following soundtrack is playing 24/7 in hers:
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya
Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya
Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya
Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbayah
The entire NPA council is uncivil and totally out of sync with reality. Now Gordo and his pals............well that's Lotus land!
Further to Liz J's excellent post, and particular to her comment about crashes at intersections, I invite everyone to view this.
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