To the work crew and 3 or 4 stop sign holders who just watched and then looked away as I twisted my ankle in a pot hole and fell in to the street: Wow! Where am I again? Queen, Birmingham and Artillery Place is where. —Day Tripper

This article appears in Apr 7-13, 2011.

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  1. you have to keep your eyes on everything, but your texting. if you were tappings your keys, then it fucking seves you right for being a dumbass. take some responsibility for your own actions, for just fucking once.

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  3. Did I say anything about texting? Did I say I wasn’t looking where I was going? The compassion continues. Go fuck yourselves.

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  4. “3 or 4 stop sign holders” … were they just standing around … or holding stop signs … if they were holding them I don’t think they could have just dropped what they were doing and come to your aid …

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  5. snubiz, had this come fromsomeone else, i’d sa fuck you too. but seriously , people do that shit, and you know i’m right. then they would whine that they were hurt or whatever by soeone. put yourself in our place, without knowing the ful story, we assume the worst, til someone, the bitcher, helps clarify what went on totally. see what i’m getting at there. we need all the details, not just some.

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  6. I ….Can’t …..help …..it !
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    you should have STOPPED.
    THere were 3 or 4 people warning you ~;)

    Sorry OP, Hope you weren’t hurt too badly.

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  7. Feel better soon, OP. I know what you’re saying… a bit of help would be nice and welcome when you’re hurt. Sometimes it’s easy to feel alone here when people look the other way. But hey, then you can run into a half a dozen wonderful strangers the next day.

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  9. This place is nothing but assholes who assume life actually sucks and everyone is and idiot like themselves and you know they’ll be the first group to shit all over someone who says NS isn’t the best place on the whole wide planet with the most friendly people ….. want the real way people think and act around here write a bitch, any bitch and watch people tell you off. Pure class acts.

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  10. My point was that out of half a dozen or more people who saw me on my hands and knees in the street, a grand total of ZERO people even asked if I was OK. You know – common civility. What was I thinking! I find it all a tad shocking and pretty damn sad . Huge ankle, bag of frozen peas, glass of wine.

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  12. yeah snubiz, tat is halisux people for you. just the wrong ones there at that time. i’m sure most here would help, but seeing as how most of us don’t know who we all are, it’s hard to say. and oooooo, i thinks i have a wanna be stalker here today. gee, i’m flattered.an imitaor is a great form of flattery. and by the way, m.m. sent me an email, of his puppies. they are awesome looking pups. i was impressed, by how handsome they are. thanks m.m.

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  13. OP. I would have been there but my bat signal isn’t working. I feel your pain.

    One day I was getting off the bus and twisted my ankle. I’m quite sure everyone on the bus and the surrounding communities heard my pottie mouth.

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  14. doesn’t your brain automatically engage when you see someone go ass over to tea kettle? huh? useless fecks

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  16. Those guys were dicks.
    Hope you’re feeling better. I hate wiping out in the wheelchair. People are generally good, despite what the negative voice in our head says.
    Feel better.

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  19. OK..so OP..we went from 3 or 4 stop sign holders (doing their job) now we’re up to half a dozen (6) or more wouldn’t help!! I’m truly, madly, deeply, sorry you feel like us Haligonians have no compassion for our fellow , but seems like you feel sorry enough for yourself, you don’t need our sympathies.

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  21. Maybe you are just unattractive. If you were a good looking lady every one of those guys would have come to your aid.

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  22. I wish I had a nickel for all the fucking times I have fallen with witnesses only to pick my own self up. Now I assume nothing and, if I fall, I’ll get myself up, thanks, or emit an ear-shattering screech that’d shatter the glass on the Ol’ Town Clock.

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  24. It’s not their fault you can’t operate those two legs. Fuck, I wonder if they posted a video of you falling ion youtube. lol.

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  25. Hey skully-girl; re-read the bitch:

    “To the WORK CREW & 3 or 4 stop sign holders…”

    That would bring it up to about half a dozen; if not more.

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  26. Don’t mind Life Sucks, Life is Great, his reading and communication skills are quite lacking and tries his hardest to pull out any negatives he can find in anything, and his opinions do not reflect the views and opinions of the majority of the people of Halifax :).

    My clumsy self has fallen many a time and have always been offered help. Sorry there weren’t any nice-ies around to help you OP!

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  27. work crew and 3 or 4 stop sign holders……twisted ankle in a pot hole……

    WTF? Did you not realize they were perhaps working on the catastrophe and you didn’t notice the HUGE fugging hole in the ground when there was a work crew and 3 or 4 stop sign holders alerting people to the impending danger! Perhaps THEY didn’t notice you either!

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  29. I know how you feel, OP. When I had my bus accident back in 2007 there were three people on the bus and not one helped me up. They, along with the driver asked me if I was ok AFTER I was up and collected my things (including my shoe on the other end of the bus along with my pride). I went to the back and sat down and cried. Not because I was hurt (the injuries only started to surface a couple hours later), but because I was embarrassed and sad no one gave enough of a shit to help.

    Thankfully, my mom had help when she tore her achellies falling up the steps at scotia square (her morning 21 crew) — the week before she fell over the curb going to the bridge terminal no one bothered to help her up.

    It makes me sad because my mom’s a sweetheart and everyone loves her. 🙁

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  30. Op, I’m not saying this in hindsight; if I saw you fall I would have offered help. I’m hoping those two workmen were just goofs that worried they would embarass you if they offered assistance; I know that there have been times when I offerred help and was gruffly dismissed because the person was embarassed I drew even more attention to their clumsy mishap. Or else maybe it just appeared they saw what happened but in reality they were totally absorbed by something else even as they looked in your direction. But that’s me giving them the benefit of the doubt; which is a stretch, I’m sure!

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  33. Happened to me last November, OP. I fell into traffic on Yonge Street in TO during the 5 o’clock rush. I can remember looking up towards the grill of an oncoming truck, then the rush of being swept back onto the sidewalk by passers-by. I have no idea who helped me, but they prevented me from being a story on the evening news. My helpers disappeared as quickly as they came. My ankle’s still a bit swollen, even now. Lots of soft tissue damage. Use ice & keep it elevated at much as possible. I’ve found that a compression bandaged helps, too. All the best 🙂

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