Stompity

[trouble]

Dear Halifax:

I hate you and everything you stand for.

No love,

Me.

At least the liquor store was open since apparently no place else in the city is.

PS: I want Katie & Emmy to come home now. And Ginny! to get here. And Don to wake up. And a pony and free coffee forever.

Comments

[terajk]

I can't comment on Halifax in general, but...yay, liquor?

I want free coffee forever TOOOO. (Sometimes I go to the restaurant that has $1.69 coffee and free refills, but it is too COOOLD to walk that far. *whine*) I will one-up your pony, though, and ask for a unicorn.

And the library is stil CLOOOSED. *Woe.*

[trouble]

ARG LIBRARY CLOSED. It's like... like... meanness and woe. :(

I'm just used to living places where at least the big box stores are open for all their nationally advertised sales. Except Halifax, apparently.

[terajk]

How could no big box stores be open? How will you take back Christmas presents you don't want, or buy accessories that you forgot? *Stompity*

And I suppose the closed library isn't that bad--it doesn't have a lot of books I want. I really miss access to an academic library. (Since I don't have that, it's like the library is closed FOREVER. Woe and meanness. :( )

[capriuni]

Hugs. Halifax sounds thoroughly dreary. So I went looking to find you a pony.

I don't know how to find and send a real pony through a modem (woe). But I can give you an e-pony (youtube vid).

[trouble]

PONY!

[jhameia]

Halifax is TERRIBLE for things like that. The first time I realized that stores actually closed by 6m was such a fucking culture shock for me.

[trouble]

I obviously belong in a big city because I just cannot cope with life not being at my beck and call, you know?

[metonymy]

Coming from a state that used to have rather restrictive blue laws (no booze on Sundays!) that sounds completely effing backwards.

Ponies?

[silveradept]

...hopefully it's good coffee.

But really? Only the liquor stores were open? How did everyone else manage to coordinate being closed and off?

[trouble]

Halifax, bless it, still has lots of closed shops every Sunday. They only recently repealed the Sunday Closing Laws, to much controversy because the general public voted against repealing them and the City did it anyway.

[silveradept]

Ah, sounds rather, ah... conservative, in the kind of "Everyone should be in church on Sunday and nowhere else" kind of way.

[scruloose]

Well, I voted against repealing the Sunday Closing law, but my reasoning had nothing to do with any conservative "Sunday is for church" mentality. I just thought it was cool that there was a guaranteed day off every week for people working crappy retail jobs. And a pretty high likelihood that their friends and loved ones would be off on the same day.

That, and I'm very against consumer culture and have limited patience for the notion that being denied shopping one day out of seven is some sort of major hardship.

[trouble]

That's great, for people who work Monday to Friday jobs. Saturday can be running around day, I guess, unless you practice a religion that doesn't allow for Saturday to be running around day. And it ignores that in Halifax smaller businesses were still open, and smaller businesses do shift work, too.

If it were about allowing a guaranteed day of, it could be Saturday. Mandating that everyone must observe Sunday Closing Laws is imposing Christian religious tradition on folks.

[scruloose]

These are good points. The two practical advantages I saw in the Sunday Closing law were that it gave the same day off to everyone who it covered (which, admittedly, did not include small corner stores etc), and that it was already in place and so didn't require arduous and unlikely-to-succeed campaigning to change the labour protection laws. Hell, the majority voted in a "binding" referendum to maintain the status quo and the arrogant Tory government just ignored it.

[trouble]

Yeah, that last bit is the bit that irritates the heck outta me. It's the same thing they did in Western Australia. There's been either two or three referendum that have clearly indicated that the general public does not want to go over to Daylight Savings Time (I think they were 70 or 80% against), and yet, they decided to do it "for a three year trial run" anyway because of business concerns.

[st_aurafina]

This closing for holidays thing is a terrible shock. Now I see why people stock up like it's the next ice age.

*puts pony in the mail* It should be there in about two weeks.

[trouble]

YAY PONY!

[emee]

I'm home!

[trouble]

OMG YAY! Do you want to get together? THERE IS COFFEE EMMY.

[ginny_t]

I'm here!

Also, there were literally hordes of people going into the Eaton Centre at 9:30 yesterday--not only was it open, it was open early. I'm just sayin'...