Dodgeville

Stop! You know there are people down there, eh?

One of the members of the crew replacing a 5th-storey office window, to another member of the crew who was chipping the old broken pane out with Vise-Grips and raining little glass shards onto the sidewalk below.

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Some random quotes from Sunday’s Toronto Cyclists Union cycling advocacy workshop:

Cycling in the city today is about where running or jogging was 20 years ago.

Councillor Adrian Heaps on the perception of cycling on city streets as a fringe activity.

Nothing happens without a social movement behind it.

Councillor Joe Mihevc on what will drive a cycling agenda at City Hall.

Good leadership is invisible.

Facilitator Shannon Thompson, saying that good leadership is marked by the absence of problems.

The 51k is going to go in.

Adrian Heaps, on the prospects of the city actually meeting its bike lane installation target this year.

You had me until the last one. Once bitten…

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Two contractor/handyman-types heading into Home Depot yesterday:

Guy 1 (reading shopping list): “Two-by-four-by-eight? What the hell is that?”

Guy 2 (checks shopping list): “Uh…it’s a two-by-four that’s eight feet long.”

Guy 1: “Oh.”

With spring renovation season getting underway, just remember that these are the experts who will be building your deck or fixing your kitchen. Be sure to check those references.

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“Nope.”

– The acting store manager in the Loblaws at Broadview and Danforth on Sunday, when I asked if he could do anything about the lineup that snaked from the one open non-express checkout all the way across the front of the store and up the dairy aisle.

“I keep forgetting not to come here anymore.”

– A frustrated woman making her way to the end of the line.

You and me both, sister. The newly-renovated Sobeys up the street beckons.

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