This has been eating at me for a few weeks now and I need to get it off my chest:
To the lady who scolded my fiance and I as we tried to leave the Police Bike Auction – thanks for the warm Halifax welcome! We had trouble getting out of the crowded parking lot in our little pickup truck and your comment “Maybe you should have rode your bikes” was idiotic.
I have just moved to Halifax from Vancouver and came to the auction to BUY A BIKE… why else would I be there?! We drove there, hoping to pickup a used bike to repair and eventually ride – hence the truck. It’s 8am on a Saturday and I’m lost in a new city, and stuck in a crowded parking lot?! You couldn’t just keep your holier-than-thou mouth shut?
So thank you ever SO MUCH for the kind, warm welcome to your beautiful city! And to think I told everyone back in B.C. how friendly and warmhearted everyone in the Maritimes was… I sure hope you’re just the exception. —Red truck passenger/ BC bitcher
This article appears in Jun 17-23, 2010.
those types of people exist everywhere op, not to worry. did you get a bike? the pickings were pretty slim this year
Probably someone from out west…the damn place is starting to get crowded with all those upper Canadian assholes coming down here for cheap property & high taxes !
Friendly maritimes might have been true 30 years ago.
this is why so many people hate enviro-mentalists; bitch slap upside the head is very effective in these situations 🙂
i am starting to suspect you may be a jack russell martym
but why wait so long to bitch, are you afraid to get beaten up or what? no one in halifax got the guts to go one on one with anyone. they gotta have their homely homeys.
WTF? Where’s my comment? I spoke God’s honest truth and didn’t even curse your HORRID fucking town. You bitches can sure dish it out but when it comes to swallowing TRUTH… holy fuck YOU SUCK
some kind of boo boo kay, try postint it again. must have been an itchy finger. not personal.
post it maude c’mon i triple dog dare ya
OP, I moved here from BC too, and the welcome I got was being broken into and getting all my computer equipments stolen. I may also add an occasional honking while driving, for things like changing lanes, or not flooring my gas pedal right after the light changed to green.
But I have met a bunch of wonderful people too, and those people more than make up for the bad experiences I have had in this city so far. You will eventually meet them, you just have to be patient.
is that a good thing PG? 🙂
I thought of this when I went to the auction too. some people drove their bikes there and I wondered how they’d get the bikes they planned on buying HOME! Everyone knows you can’t ride 2 bikes at a time.
And for those wondering, I got an awesome bike for $85. It was in close to mint condition and with the seat as low as it goes it perfectly fits my short-ass legs.
well, i have seen people ride a bike and push t’other, not wise…yes martym but i never met a dog i didn’t like. jack’s have no fear and will attack dogs much larger than themselves they call them good ratters for a reason. tenacious little feckers but endearing
Bike auctions? How do you find out about these? Do they auction off other things? I’m looking for a boat.
I wonder if they had a website such as the Coast and a section such as LTTWB in Alberta or BC, how many bitches you would see “I moved here from the maritimes and I find everyone here is a douche/theif/murderer”. Probably lots too, don’t go thinking you guys are something special ;). I find there are people who are jerks here and there also jerks in London (UK), Victoria BC, Montreal QC, Edmonton AB, and every fucking city/town in the world. To think otherwise is absolutely retarded.
I agree with you melectric that there are jerks everywhere you go, but first impression is very important and bad impressions are often more memorable than good/benign impressions.
There’s this http://www.westender.com/articles/entry/ra… and The Straight… oh look, they hate cyclists too, or something like that.
and apparently they have toilet problems as well…a universal dilemma
Wow Cranky, It’s like those bullies out there have known us our entire lives.
Hey Painey, How did die Grauenhunde fare last night during the pyrotechnics?
actually, he was just fine…even the little shits lighting firecrackers didn’t phase him, but he is getting on in years. he doesn’t even chase my crows. hope he lives a long time but unlikely.rooo
Enjoy your stay in NS, plenty more to come your way!
Reason why I stopped going out much!
People don’t even say or return a friendly good morning here!
We have a quaint retort down here to people such as this, a quick and hearty “go fuck yourself spindle dick” always suits the occasion, if it’s a female you can substitute mangy minge for spindle dick.
Of course my comment gets deleted when kay cries about it.
that’s me alright an endearing little fucker 🙂
Hey Sebastein why don’t you buy my dad’s rusty old wheelbarrow. Just saw off the handles, get some rubber bumpers, oars…and off you go! You could even rig up a sail for it because I’d throw in the Sobey’s bags free. It would really suit you!
he could call it the s.s. minnow
I see a Nice Goin’ Fat pattern. Do you moderator?
Crybaby. Get off the Internet if it hurts your feelings so much *pat on the head*
beware of flying pop coming your way….