Streetside

Scenes along the half metre wide poor mans highway just beside sidewalks. Some may call it the curb and others the bike lane or even the gutter. Everyday crazy shit can happen between the speed of the cars and the elevated foot patrol. One has the time to look and not care while the other is in too much of a rush to care to bother and look. Well, lesson learned this morning? Seems redundant but....always take a look to see the bike coming before opening the car door. Another case of helmet less trauma to the face of an unsuspecting ten speedster biker son. Amazing how quickly 2 EMS, police cruiser and a firetruck get to Yonge and College at 10 am. Scene in the 1/2 metre: Crumpled speed bike, Taxi with driver side door open. Expressionless taxi driver, skinny brush cutted broken nosed road assassin speedster moaning to a cop sitting slumped on the edge while about 40 grandstanding tourists from the Days Inn Hotel are taking pictures. Then a very strange and surreal scene that seems it should be put into Harmony Korine movie. A 14 year old Hindi girl dressed in full traditional gown kick and pushing on a fat decked skate board with a total still and unwaveable concentration and calm smeared across her face while being chased by a middle aged Gerrard Street bottle collecting one tall can laker fiend on a tattered mountain bike with a confused look on his face. All of this moving at the speed of a child's stroller. Just the kind of thing that for some reason makes you want to keep looking to see why will happen next.