January 16th, 2008

What to Hate

As the “1000 Things We Like” project winds up, I have been planning a silly little “10 Things I Hate” post, mainly about grammatical errors, bad behaviour on TTC and at potlucks, etc. It was going to be a pretty funny post, but now it seems in poor taste, since the death of John O’Keefe by a stray bullet last Friday night. That’s such a weird sentence for a Torontonian that I can only really process it by thinking of it like a meteor strike or a tsumami–totally random and unpreventable. But it’s not, because apparently people sometimes have guns in their pockets as they stroll around Yonge and Bloor, which is not something I knew before, and is certainly not unpreventable.

So that’s what I hate. I’ll bitch about comma splices some other time.

RR