There are a lot of small town-y things that I'm having to learn since I moved to Goo-loph. For example, the disgustingness of hard water. I've never experienced the tiny grains of calcium that seem to be ingested by small town folk. I'm slowly having to learn not to finish my cup of tea to avoid the horrible sensation of drinking wet sand.
Also, the newspapers here just come. You don't subscribe to them, they just show up. Twice a week. And they tell you what's happening in Goo-loph. For the longest time I was wondering who the hell bought a subscription for our house, and then Jess had to explain that that isn't how it works in small towns.
And apparently there are no raccoons here. Well there are, but they are well fed I guess. For the first two weeks I was getting up early and taking the garbage out on garbage day like a chump. I live beside a valley, and I assumed raccoons would be a problem, but I haven't even seen one. We leave the garbage out all night and I'm astounded that there is nothing to clean up in the morning.
Small town buses. Unimpressive. They don't run at all on holidays, so when I came home after thanksgiving it cost me eleven dollars to get to here from home, and it cost me ten dollars to get from campus to the box by taxi. That is ridiculous. How do people get anywhere on holidays? Also, the bus that goes to campus doesn't run on the weekend, which was trouble when we had to get to campus for Poon-Shack (WRC) training this weekend. The world doesn't stop when classes stop!
Again with the buses, they have a huge add on the back of the buses that is a picture of a fetus and the statement "This is NOT a Choice" paid for by this anti-abortion Catholic group. In what world is it okay for public transit to preach Catholic politics at me! Not impressed! We don't have that on the TTC do we? I've never seen anything so offensive. There's also another one by a different Catholic Women's Group that says "Pornography Hurts" and has a line drawing of a crying child. I don't get it. We have adds to support people in Toronto put out by United Way and the Kids Help Phone, not adds condemning people for their choices.
I kind of want to fundraise and take out a huge Pro-Choice add, but I'm thinking I may just start calling people and asking questions in hopes that I'll get some amunition to write an article, start an uprising, and create some sort of limits for what is appropriate to advertise on a public bus.