stubsadventures

Just got back from six days in Toronto.

Got to see my bff Poncho again and we hit up the town with some of my family and a few friends but not without a few bumps along the way. After we got all girlified and called a cab, we went to the wrong bar, not knowing the difference. Who knew there could be more than one bar called Shoeless Joe’s! After having a few drinks, Poncho out of the blue asks if we’re at the right place only to find out, we were about 20 minutes in the wrong direction. No big deal. We went outside to grab a cab and turns out it was more of a big deal than we thought. So, we decided that we would start to walk to stay warm, I failed to mention it was stupid cold. So, we started walking until cars started to slide all over the road. The hilly road was a sheet of ice and none of the cars could stop. It was terrifying! Poncho was freaking out (as always). Oh, I forgot to mention the part where we were crossing the road and I fell in the middle of it. Not a slip, complete arms flailing, legs doing the cartoon deal and then finally coming to a stop in the middle of the ice road. I had no choice other than to mention it or else Poncho would have commented on it anyway. I know this because for the rest of the night when we ran into someone, it was the first thing she told them. Then, everyone laughed at me. All. Night. Long.

The distance between where I stay outside of Toronto and where I visit my cousin is a little less than an hour. In that drive, you see people make decisions with their vehicles that they should be put in jail for. How someone doesn’t die every five minutes on the 403 highway is something I will never understand! People drive speeds like their in one of those race deals, people cut each other off like it’s funny and no one follows the proper spacing for vehicles… until it snows. Then, people all find their inner senior citizen and no one goes over 40km, it’s the weirdest thing. I also saw a car that is actually smaller than a Smart Car. I have no idea what kind it was but it looked like an overgrown dinky. It took up about 1/8 of a parking spot. Obviously this is more crazy to me as I drive a Suburban which is routinely filled to the brim. I got this awesome mental imagine of the burb just driving up and over that thing, crushing it in one pass. Man, if only….

Other highlight from the trip was going to a Leafs/Pens game at the ACC which was the first time I had been there. Me and the cousin had awesome seats and we made it on the jumbotron thing! We were those people though who acted like they were too cool to notice that they were even on there in the first place. It was either that, or take the opportunity to make an obscene gesture. I like to think I took the high road.

Stubs

Ha, you know me so well, I wouldn’t be able to leave this tail with out the story of you very skillfully losing control and falling on the ice, it almost looked like a dance move 🙂 I had an amazing weekend and hope we can do it again soon.

Comment by Poncho February 13, 2012 @ 2:59 pm

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