Went for a walk to Shoppers and then SuperValu to buy Qtips (it’s a thing, I just gotsa have my tips, yo), and some newspaper for a little random floor-board cramming, and it was sketchy out there tonight.
I mean, I live in the middle of Vancouver’s West End (well, to be fair, on the East Side of the West End), but wooftie. I saw the following things in no particular order:
- Taser-armed security guard with a bad hat, watching the front door of Shoppers.
- Less-than-subtle undercover security floor-walkers. (Seriously: Who buys a single houseplant at 11:10pm on a Sunday, by yourself? Didja drop something expensive last time you nabbed some punk stealing a Snickers bar?)
- Police takedown of some sort.
- Someone watching the takedown from 20ft away, with their hoodie pulled up like the world’s stupidest ninja.
- Another hoodie & backpack guy watching from about 100ft away, sorta-kinda hiding behind a big cube container in the parking lot of the Shoppers while trying to look nonchalant in that “LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! way only the addicted/sketched can.
- A tipsy dude just about get taken out entirely by a bus, because he was trying to jaywalk in front of it. Sorta like seeing really bad drivers driving a AutoBody Courtesy Car. You can see how they got that way, y’know?
- The non-full moon behind mist. Can’t blame the moon tonight.
I have to go put away laundry now, and then off to bed.
Tomorrow is Sportball again, I wonder what’s next? Hockey? Bowling? Robot Wars?
Ripley discovered headphones work in the CD player in his room, which means he can listen to music at a volume above “The Red Line.” Now, he’s probably trying to figure out if his stereo can somehow get YouTube.
Posted on November 17th 2008 in General
November 17th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Dude,
I don’t know what it is either but I too have been noticing an overall weirdness in the streets and on buses and such. Tonight on the bus I watched as three passengers in a row asked to ride free, one of which is a homeless vietnamese dude that hangs out in the parking lot by the little market by my place. I also watched as he almost got smoked by a car on kingsway, and then kneeled down to pray (to mecca) which I also have seen him do alot. On top of that, there were 2 transit security guys on the bus, which was also being tailed by a transit security car. And we passed someone getting pulled over by a cop with cherries blazing. All this before 7 pm.