So I Finally Laughed At A Caller....

[Cymberleah]

Now, I don't live in Vancouver, but every time I visit I take at least one trip on the Skytrain. And as it's normally from Edmonds to parts west, I am actually on the same line that GK takes. I have never, not once encountered one of the various specimens of humanity that he has. My most amusing encounter was when the nice Scottish church going lady and the hip hop gangster wannabe conversed as the train went downtown. There was some singing of hymns, and chiding over the use of naughty language.

I would call shenanigans, but I think that it is actually that GK is a crazy singularity. All the insanity is drawn towards him. To stay safe, I just must never ride the Skytrain as he travels into work, or home.

[EricKei]

four years is a decent length of time to get out of a jacket .

Bah. whippersnappers, all of ya! I'VE GOT SOCKS OLDER THAN YOU!

Yes, I have actually said that to people IRL before, and meant it...

[BusBus]

I would call shenanigans, but I think that it is actually that GK is a crazy singularity. All the insanity is drawn towards him. To stay safe, I just must never ride the Skytrain as he travels into work, or home.

He takes the train at night, which brings about all sort of interesting....creatures that are afraid of daylight. I don't ride the Skytrain often, but I have lived here long enough to know that GK's stories are fairly probable. I even saw one of his eyesores last week, as I noted in a previous thread [man, I wish the camera on my cell phone wasn't a POS].

[Gravekeeper]

I would call shenanigans, but I think that it is actually that GK is a crazy singularity. All the insanity is drawn towards him. To stay safe, I just must never ride the Skytrain as he travels into work, or home.

I wish I was making it sometimes to be honest. But yes, as BusBus said. Ride it under the cover of darkness all week and pay close attention when you pull into Broadway station. ><

I've never spotted anything untold during daytime trips or mornings on the way home. Those are typically quite pleasant and allow me to nap.

[Becks]

Lord help me, I boarded the Skytrain this evening under the naïve impression that all would be well with my trip.

Poor GK. At least we got a funny story out of it.

[lordlundar]

Actually, ages ago, one OEM company started swapping one key on their equipment, placing an "Any" key in its place. I think it was the left Alt, but I'm not sure. Not sure if they still do that, but it's possible that some of those altered keyboards are in circulation.

Yeah, that was Compaq, but it wasn't a swapped key, it was put in addition to the regular set. So far as I know, it served no other purpose than to register as "key pressed" to the computer.

And no, they actually did stop some time ago, though after seeing how many times this comes up, they probably should have kept it.

[trailerparkmedic]

Yeah, that was Compaq

For real? Any idea when this happened? I would love one of those keyboards.

[dalesys]

One of my sons always has his 'Any' prompts read:

Bang head on keyboard.

[Fryk]

Why is it that whenever you encounter a stench, your bosy decides to clear out your sdinuses so you can smell it MORE?

[Kara]

To stay safe, I just must never ride the Skytrain as he travels into work, or home.

It's probably for the best. If the slobbering day-glo lunatics don't get you, the dark aura emanating from the depths of his blackened soul would most likely drive one to sheer madness followed by a slow, excruciating death your body gradually wastes away, leaving behind a shriveled husk and a pink camo tank top.

I don't know how many times I laughed at customers. I would try to play it off with a quick cough and a clearing of the throat. So go ahead and laugh with delight at their misfortunes. It feels good.

[Andara Bledin]

So you may as well dial it down to Normal like the rest of us.

Honestly, I think many of your callers really need to set it to Easy for everyone's sake...

SC: “Um, probably three.”

Oh, no, he's been talking to the first guy. Maybe everything does come in threes.

Oh no, instead I smelled him first. For this was a Beast of Smells. A myriad of odours mixed together that both stung the back of my throat and cleared my sinuses in seconds.

I have been known to make gagging sounds, utter the phrase, "Oh my god, that's foul" and pointedly move seats when assaulted by such individuals.

Of course, I do this on a bus, within view of a person of authority, just in case said sinus abuser should take umbrage and try to inflict further harm upon my person.

I know that if I am EVER in Vancouver, I am going to have to ride that damn thing, late at night, just to see this cavalcade of hilarity!

I have ridden the Skytrain, and done so well after dark. However, I failed to encounter anything even remotely noteworthy, during my dozen or so trips.

Then again, my trips never went quite so far south as Broadway.

The problem there is that Alt is a "dead key", it doesn't produce any characters on it's own.

While it doesn't produce a character, it does register as a keypress. So it would be a great key to swap with an "any" key.

^-.-^

[Gravekeeper]

Then again, my trips never went quite so far south as Broadway.

Considering the Skytrain only runs east/west I can see why you never made it

<ducks>

[Magpie]

I have ridden the Skytrain, and done so well after dark. However, I failed to encounter anything even remotely noteworthy, during my dozen or so trips.

Then again, my trips never went quite so far south as Broadway.

I've seen some *ahem* interesting characters on the bus system here, and it doesn't even run late nights - during the fall and winter terms they have a "late night" loop that runs at 1 and 2 am, but aside from that all service stops at midnight. I guess that just makes the freaks come out earlier here than they do in cities with full transit service.

[Jester]

I have ridden the Skytrain, and done so well after dark. However, I failed to encounter anything even remotely noteworthy, during my dozen or so trips.

Then again, my trips never went quite so far south as Broadway.

Fixed it for you, based on what GK said about its directionality.

And this of course is the flaw to what you said. You never got to Broadway. Even I, a man who has never set foot in Canada, who lives pretty much as far away from Vancouver as a human CAN on this continent, even *I* know that in that city, on that transit system, Broadway is the nexus of all weirdness.

[Andara Bledin]

Fixed it for you, based on what GK said about its directionality.

Actually, according to Wiki and the Skytrain page, there are 3 Skytrain routes, and one of them actually travels N/S. However, the one(s) that hit Broadway, go in a generally WNW/ESE direction, so my contention that I never made it that far south (I started at the westernmost end and only went a few stations down when I was there) is factually correct.



I took the Expo line every time I rode, starting from near the western (and northern) end of it's run.

And this of course is the flaw to what you said. You never got to Broadway. Even I, a man who has never set foot in Canada, who lives pretty much as far away from Vancouver as a human CAN on this continent, even *I* know that in that city, on that transit system, Broadway is the nexus of all weirdness.

Indeed, and that was a flaw that I freely admitted. *nod*

^-.-^