another Toronto anecdote...

2) I had been seeing someone for a couple of weeks prior to Valentine’s Day. On the 14th, I actually got out of work early. I called the guy up – excited to spend my first Valentine’s Day with a ‘boyfriend’. BUT, he was sick and didn’t want to do anything and didn’t even want me to bring him soup or anything to his place (suffice it to say we broke up a few days later…)

Anyway, that isn’t the story.

I took the subway to my stop – Yonge and Eglinton. BUT when I got above ground I found my street and a few other streets cordoned off with police tape and police cars. Apparently someone had left a suitcase outside the Hooters right across from my condo building (yes I lived across the street from a Hooters). Anyway, the bomb squad was there to check things out. I wasn’t allowed near my building and the cops couldn’t tell me when they’d be gone…

So, I went to the movie theatre down the street. It was me and a bunch of pre-teenage girls watching How to Lose a Guy in 10 days…we were the only ones in the theatre. They were laughing at me (for being so pathetic as to be watching a romance on Valentine’s Day alone). Meanwhile I was pissing myself laughing at the movie – between me, and two of my close friends, we had committed every one of the ‘bad’ things in the previous few weeks…I couldn’t also help but smirk at the girls, who just didn’t get the movie AT ALL, that they’d understand in a few years why I was laughing…

It was actually the best Valentine’s Day ever for me!