Irritants

It's election time in Canada again and that means campaing time! Time for the various party leaders to promise us the world in hopes that they be elected into office where they will get post election amnesia and forget the promises they made. Time for the leaders to call each other names and point out their parties faults and past mistakes as if their own party is innocent of all evils. Pictures of kids in a sandbox comes to mind....

And then there are those people who like to continually complain of the high gas prices. I bet they are the same people who spend $80+ per bottle of toilet water and then bathe in the stuff so rather than enticing others the chemicals attack the senses of those unfortunate enough to pass them in the hall or on the street. Did I forget to mention being stuck on a train with them too. That is even worse because there are no real alternatives. I guess changing seats is an option, if one could find one that isn't close to one of these chemical lovers. Speaking of change...

The platform numbers at Union Station changed over the weekend. There have been notices posted everywhere, including GO Transit's website, for the past few weeks so people knew the change was going to happen and gave the appearance of someone caring. Instead of them providing the new mapping (i.e. platofrm 1 will become platform x) they get to stand back and watch the confused faces of the commuters while they try to figure things out. It shouldn't be difficult since most trains will be leaving from the same track but they could have made things easier by not keeping the new numbering system a secret.

While I am on the subject of making things better, changes are greatly needed in the world of sports broadcasting. The use of ex-player/current player analysts needs to stop. In most cases there is no value added and in some cases (Pat Tabler, Darrin Fletcher, Rance Mullincks) it actually hurts the whole game experience. This past weekend as one of the MLB divisional series entered Game 3 with the one team down 0-2, an analyst was asked what the trailing team needed to do to win. Is that not obvious! Score more runs then the other team. Have everyone playing like they deserve to be in the postseason, perhaps. We don't need some slightly above average ball player from a team long out of the playoffs to tell us that.