My Mum says I look like a Mormon

You know, I was pretty upset when I found out that my clipper charger is at home. But I didn't think it would mean that I would be copping quite so much grief from this side of the world! This weekend Sarah and I went to another city here in BC called Burnaby. It's more of suburb than a city if you ask me, it barely took any time to get there on the train. Kinda like going from Ivanhoe to Greensborough. Anyways, there is this "Mall" there called Metropolis, and it's at the station called Metrotown. I kinda felt like I was in a Robocop film and the mega corp OCP were just around the corner. So this mall was pretty mammoth, but we couldn't really find anything that we should buy. Sarah did a pretty good job of avoiding killing me... Well, avoiding trying to kill me anyways. Alas, the only this that we were looking for (a webcam for using on skype) was no where to be found. Still, we were pretty tired and we didn't even get to have any beers. We headed back to town emptyhanded, but definitely enriched for the trip to the burbs.

The sun through polarised sunnies and clouds

In town we managed to find what we were looking for in a store called London Drugs. Now I find it awefully strange that the call pharmacies "drug stores" and that they don't just sell pharmaceutical goods. No, no they sell everything you can think of, including cds, dvds, computers etc etc. Sarah was standing in front of a 20" iMac and she was nearly in tears cause it was so beautiful. The sales guy was slightly bemused by her watery eyes and for a minute there I truly believd that we were going to see some water works. It was fine. We were further tempted to buy extra stuff though. At the checkout the She-Ra movie was on display next to the check out bloke. The guy's sales pitch was absolutely unreal: "Oh yeah! Man I love She-Ra too! So you wanna buy this or..?". We were nearly sold, the only thing that stopped us was that we're not confident that we'll hang on to it while we're gallavanting around.

Friday night we had poutine (POO-TEEN) at a local joint called Hell's Kitchen. I was pretty happy with the poutine, but sadly people here don't seem to understand that 330mls of beers IS NOT a pint. They do have some real problems in the service industry here. For a start, they don't know what measurements constitute a pint (in any bar I have been in at all!) and the workers only get a base wage of $8.00 per hour, so they are constantly trying to crawl up your arse to see if you want anything else. The other side of that is that tipping etiquette is to tip between 12 and 20% of the price. So the more they get you to buy the higher the tip is likely to be. It's really annoying when you're trying to have a conversation and someone keeps hassling you, even when you haven't nearly finished your drink. Regardless of all that whinging, we had a really nice time!

Near the yacht club in Kits

Thursday we'd been BBQing with Amber and Simon. True to form Sarah convinced me to drink too many beers, so I was a little bit drunk. Not so drunk that I was sick or anything, but I did have a pounding headache on Friday morning. It wouldn't have been that bad except that I had to go and file stuff. I have finally finished consolidating the file room. For some reason this means that I am now going to be doing morning reception. I'm not totally adverse to the idea of doing reception or anything... the executive P.A.'s telling me that I would need to wear a skirt and heels on Monday morning. I'm starting to wonder what kind of work place this is...

Only four weeks left in Vancouver! Plenty of opportunities for Sarah to try and kill us left! I'll keep you updated!

written by

haveyouseenmypassport on May 6, 2007 from Vancouver, Canada

from the travel blog: To infinity!.. and... beyond... uh.....

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You arent really a receptionist unless you are wearing a headset connected to a PABX phone system. If they dont offer you the headband with the mike attached that makes you feel like a donkey with a carrot dangled in front of it, in my opinion, its No Dice.

written by jeannie polson on May 7, 2007

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