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Impatience Is Not A Virtue

By Val Dodge

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Impatience is not a virtue

Patience is a virtue I don’t have

What have you got?

If you take the TTC regularly, you’ve probably been stuck at a stop long enough to strike up a conversation with a fellow citizen about how freakishly long the bus is taking to arrive. But what do you do if no one’s around to share your frustration? Why, you can strike up a conversation anyway, as two people have done at this bus stop on Summerhill Avenue. We’ve been waiting for a while to see a response to the final question, but it seems that the second writer really doesn’t have the patience for long conversations.
Photo by Val Dodge.

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  • davedave

    Ahhh, vandalism. Isn’t it awesome?

  • Gauldar

    Yeah, the text is distracting me from seeing the intricate scratches and eligant screw work. Seriously, what the hell is that thing, and why do I have the urg to dry hump it?

  • antiboy

    Get them damn whippersnapper THUGS to PAY for cleaning this PRIVATE PROPERTY themselves. See how they FEEL when they have to PAY.

  • james a

    I agree with davedave. There is absolutely nothing more reprehensible than when I just want to look at the backing plate of a bus stop and some assholes have written a conversation on it.

  • rek

    Free speech is wicked.
    As for waiting, I was an hour late for work today because of the signal problems between Ossington and Broadview. I eventually abandoned the line entirely at St George and grabbed the Carlton street car at Queen’s Park. What causes the signaling problems? Is there a backup system? Would getting cell coverage down there help?

  • David Topping

    I can’t even tell who’s being sarcastic anymore.

  • wardnikoff

    Welcome to your Carlsberg years then David…

  • wardnikoff

    Oh and by the way..
    5- Yes
    4- Yes
    3- Uh….who knows…
    2- Yes
    1- Sadly, no…

  • PickleToes

    Free speech is wicked.
    If you think that’s great, you should try free expression’s closest relative: property rights. Yay!

  • antiboy

    wardnikoff: if you have read any of davedave’s “commentary” on Vandalist posts, you’ll know that they consist of four things:
    1. Violent defenses of private property
    2. Calling graffiti artists “thugs”, &c
    3. Claiming that the only proper response to graffiti is to deface the artist’s property
    4. The monetary (and psychological) strain of having to clean up street art

  • ambrose

    I used to do that in H.S. in pencil on my desk in Gr. 9 religion class.

  • rek

    Free expression’s closest relatives are arguably freedom of conscience/religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of association.

  • mantisory

    and freedom to carry firearms…t-rex, are you quoting the declaration or something?

  • rek

    You should probably familiarize yourself with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. You know, the document that outlines our rights in this country.
    (Arms? Hell no.)

  • davedave

    antiboy
    3 is completely wrong. I only advocate the perpetrator offering up his private property (house, car, etc) for defacement as a show of his strong belief in and support of all graffiti.
    and you forgot
    5. Calling the perpetrator an asshole

  • eddrass

    That red thing is called an InfoPost and either it is superfluous and was never removed or somebody ripped out the schedule and the covering plexi/lexan.
    Probably plain old vandalism, but I wonder if the frequency of schedule-snatching could be reduced if the TTC made schedules easy to get. Try printing one at TTC.ca.
    TTC staff used to affix a sticker asking riders to call in such missing schedules.
    Has anyone reported this one? We could do a test and observe how long it takes to be replaced…
    (…and how long before it’s ripped off again — especially if the InfoPost is not reinforced.)
    PS: When I was a whippersnapper I recall a TTC poster that declared “Our Property is Your Property” in an attempt to reduce vandalism. I’m sure some wags took them up on the offer and stole the posters…