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Vancouver, 2002.07.01

Here's a new one. Someone called me at about 3:30 in the morning, so I got up and tried to answer it.

There was no one there, so I turned off the phone and went back to bed. This morning I get up, and there's a message marked 'urgent' on my phone. Some drunken twerp called my number and left a long message asking me to come 'round to so-and-so address to have someone towed from his parking spot. He told me which car he wanted moved, and where to find his, so that it could be moved from its current illegal position to 'his spot'. I hope he's sober, now, and realizes his mistake (or not, and has a ticked and/or towed car).

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009