Went to Toronto last night to get some drinks with friends from school and see a show at the Horseshoe tavern.
My friends had to get back to Oshawa around midnight and I walked down the street to meet up with Alex and a couple of his friends. We stayed until last call and made the entirely-too-long journey to his parents place in the north end.
One of my favourite parts about doing stuff with Alex is his tendency to strike up conversations with random strangers. Most people take really well to him – he’s pretty likeable. So we were on the bus and Alex was razzing the guy next to him about kinda drifting off. He didn’t say anything offensive just was like “you’re gonna miss your stop.. where you going? Oh Steeles, you got a while you might as well go back to sleep” etc. The guy didn’t really seem bothered by it however this other guy sitting across from them spoke up and started talking some shit to Alex and threating to punch his face in. There was some exchange and this guy was just really angry and out of hand for no reason. I spoke up when the guy started threatening Alex and was basically just like “the other 15 people watching this exchange aren’t going to let you get away with that”. And the guy just LOST IT on me. Started yelling some shit at me and called me a WENCH. That was a first. I knew he was probably all talk but I wasn’t prepared to take any risks. After telling him to go fuck himself I proceeded to move to the front of the bus. Not really sure what happened between Alex and the crazy guy for the remainder of the bus ride. The bus stopped and everyone had to get off at the same time. I got off first and waited, staring down crazy guy as he got off. He didn’t do anything. Once the bus had emptied the sleepy guy was just like “yeah no worries man that guy was fucked” or something to that effect. Such a crazy random situation.
On the walk to Alex’s we grabbed some shawarma and finally passed out around 4. Waking Saturday morning was rough and we had to get up early cause the cleaning lady was coming. Alex and I hung out all morning and had some really good conversation about footbag, school and life.
Alex left his lavers in London so he didn’t come out to the footbag session. I was still pretty hurtin’ from the night before when I made the journey downtown. I grabbed some starbucks and met up with Erik who I knew would be waiting at Bahen. I can always count on him not to bail. So reliable. I arrived shortly after 2 and sat and talked with him and ate my lunch until nearly 3 when Adam finally arrived. Honestly I was kind of grateful we didn’t start playing right away because I was still trying to recover.
Everyone else bailed on the session so it was just the three of us. I’m so lucky to get to play with these guys but I regretted that I couldn’t fully appreciate it today. My head hurt too much to fully comprehend the tricks they were hitting. I played horribly but I still had a good time and actually felt way better by the end of the session. There was some compsci orientation happening in the U of T building we play in so there were a lot more people around than usual. On the plus side I scored some melon and grapefruit when they were cleaning up the snacks. Asking for things definitely pays off.
Erik suggested I take an alternate route to get home since part of the subway line wasn’t running. He ended up staying downtown but I took the subway eastward with Adam. We had a nice chat along the way until it was time to say goodbye. The nice thing about saying bye to these guys is it’s easy cause I know I’ll see them again in a week or two
I got off at Main street and asked a cute guy for directions to the Danforth GO station. Conveniently enough there was a shawarma place on the way which I stopped at for some grub. This made me quite happy. Even better than that though was when I got to the GO station I learned that the Ukrainian leader was taken out of power and his mansion taken over by protesters. So much win.
I enjoyed taking an alternate route. It was a nice change of scenery to travel through a part of Toronto I don’t generally frequent.
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FTW!
