Simple Pleasures
Cappuccino. A good book. An outside table.
Serious happiness.
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5 comments:
Wait a minute, wait a minute David. Are you actually telling us that you were able to have a cappuccino outside and:
1. Not be annoyed by loud cel phone yappers?
2. Not have an able bodied yahoo park his SUV in a handicapped parking spot near you?
3. Not have a yuppie mom leave her baby in her car so she could go shopping for a useless accessory for her west side home?
Ummm, if so, are you sure you're still in Vancouver?!?
Robert
Of course not.
The first offender was a 20-something girl yelling in Cantonese. She moved when asked.
The second was a man about 30, who actually came over to me and apologized!!!
Was the woman yelling in Cantonese on a 'phone, or was she just yelling?
What did the 30ish man apologize for?
So many questions!
Mo.
She was yelling in Cantonese on a cellphone. I asked her to move and she did.
He apologized for yelling into his cellphone when I asked him to move.
Same offense, same action, two different reactions.
Life on the street.
Then, blissfully, back to my book.
I was walking our dog recently and nearing the end of our block heard somebody shouting. As I got closer to the shouter, I saw that it was a neighbour across the street, standing in front of his house "talking" into his cell 'phone (Mandarin or Cantonese, I'm not sure). I suspect the person he was speaking with was hard of hearing -- or if they weren't when the conversation began, they certainly were by the time the call ended! I wondered if his wife sent him outside to make his call, much like the spouse of a smoker makes their other half smoke on the deck. As you say, life of he street.
Mo.
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