Monday, June 6, 2011

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time



What a day. Sometimes I do some work for a lawyer which includes serving papers to people. Today I had to serve a man who was doing time. I took the subway to Kipling station, and then a 40 minute bus ride which is so rickety, due to the conditions of some streets, it rearranges your organs, now I know what the term "coughing up a lung" feels like. I thought of putting on a Batman suit that I had for Halloween years ago, but how funny would that be, all I have left is the mask and the cape. I arrive at the detention centre and tell the officer that I have some papers to serve an inmate. He buzzes me through and I proceed to wait. I realize I haven't gone to the bathroom since I ate breakfast, and I can just imagine what the inmate would say if I appeared before him with a pee stain. Never visit an inmate on a full bladder. I went to the bathroom and waited some more. I was finally shown to the room where "the charming gentleman" was, along with some other guys. This guy looked a little like the actor who played Phil Leotardo on The Sopranos. I resisted the urge to shout "no way, you guys really do wear orange jumpers, I thought that was just in the movies!!!!....that is SO COOL." I sat down, picked up the phone and told him I have some papers for him. He than asked a bunch of questions that I had no answers to, what's in the folder? what's this about?...like that. He didn't have any patience for my lack of information. I felt some beads of sweat starting to form. I just wanted to get out of there and go home. After he said he's not accepting the folder without talking to his lawyer, I gave the folder to an officer and was on my way. I left the building at 10:11, as my luck would have it, I saw the bus I needed to take at the bus stop. It was that "moment of indecision" whether I should make a run for it or wait for the next one. I was like a sprinter bobbing on the starting line waiting for the gun to go off. I wish I had ran because as soon as I decided to run, the bus pulled away. Now seeing as this is the TTC and the detention centre is in an industrial section of the city, I had to wait for the next bus. I felt like Cary Grant in North by Northwest. During the time I'm waiting a thousand thoughts fill my brain..."where the hell is the bus?", "I wonder if this caterpillar on the telephone pole with turn into Mothra?" "where the hell is the bus"...10:44 is when the bus arrives, along the way there are some interesting people that get on, some guy in a black t-shirt and black sweatpants and black dress shoes, he actually looked like an inmate that might have escaped, I guess the fashion gurus don't make it out to that part of the city, I pass by a stretch of road that on one side has industrial buildings, and on the other side looks like they were taking down the sets of Logan's Run..I love 60's architecture, I also saw a sign for a gentlemen's club called Spearmint Rhino, who names these places??....takes me until 11:23 until I get to the station, I figure the ride back must have rearranged my organs to their original position. I finally get home around 12:30, none the worse for wear but armed with the knowledge of emptying your bladder BEFORE any activities that might make your knees knock.

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  2. MindSpew,

    Personally, I think that your Batman outfit would have come off as a bit harsh, resulting in further hostilities (considering your destination, and the inhabitants therein).

    You should have attired yourself in your "Data" (Star Trek TNG) uniform instead. The staff, inmates and general public would have appreciated the soothing mustard-yellow colour much more, and besides, you'd have fit in better with the local inhabitants, especially "track-suit man", with whom you could have sought out "Sanctuary" (ref. Logan's Run).

    All's well that ends well.

    - Spock

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