Titan Uranus Hong Kong

There's yet another new guy doing bike patrol for the other company. I haven't sampled him enough to give him a descriptive name, but since I don't really have any stories about him yet, that's not a problem.

However, I found out specifically what happened to Hippie. The Romanian got a ride home from one of his managers on the weekend, and was told. Get this:

If you remember, he showed up three hours late for one shift last week, and not at all the following night. We just assumed that he was having a hard time getting used to working graveyards.

However, on the day he showed up three hours late, his story was kind of odd. And he seemed sort of stunned, which we passed off as extreme tiredness.

It turns out that on the day he didn't show up at all, he put on his uniform, biked in the opposite direction of the site over to North Vancouver, and went to some random site and started pounding on the door yelling at the top of his lungs "LET ME IN, I WANT TO WORK! I BELONG HERE, LET ME IN!"

The security company that does security there called the cops when this didn't stop, and Hippie was arrested. His company was called, and they sent someone right down... to pick up their uniform and fire him. Apparently he was just fucked right up on whatever he'd drug he'd indulged in.

Tommy Chong indeed. ;)

Also got a story from the new guy about Buffalo Kisser.

Apparently Buffalo Kisser came in to work over the weekend and said that he'd been at a bus stop where a woman started kicking him in the shin. She just kept on kicking him, and he didn't know how to respond. He asked her "Why are you doing this?", but in his opinion that made him sound weak so she kept on kicking him.

So when she headed off, he followed her. I kid you not.

Took her bus, and then followed her on the SkyTrain. His thinking, I'm told, was that he wanted to show her that he was strong and in control.

She hit the panic button on the SkyTrain, and the transit cops were waiting at the next station. They pulled off Buffalo Kisser, briefly listened to his story, and let him hop on the next train that came along.

I'm going to have to remember to tell him that stalking isn't the traditional response to being kicked in the shin. :P

And on a totally different note... this baby that's coming - everybody's excited about it. And why not? It's going to be fantastic.

But beyond people going ooh and ah, and buying ungodly numbers of teddy bears and tiny little socks, and coming to be here for when he's born... there's the practical aspect of things to consider.

It's all well and good for people to say "Oh, you should get this and this and that", but you know what? I'm the only one working here. And resources are finite.

Paying the rent is important. Proper healthy food for mom while the little guy is gestating and then nursing him is important. Diapers and laundry and all of those boringly mundane things are important.

Me having to work maximum overtime (I'm starting to eyeball a 72 hour per week schedule) is a labour of love, but don't think that when I come home from working and have to sleep during the middle of the day that you get to stay in our home and selfishly keep me awake because you want to visit with mom and baby. If you're not contributing, then you get considered after those of us who are.

And a note on that. If you're someone who's pledged to contribute something, that's all well and good. But I hope you ask us about it first, because frankly we don't have such a huge place that we need a bunch of crap that the baby can't appreciate anyway. Yes, I know you're all excited and have fun looking at all the cute baby things, but let us set the pace, m'kay?

And while all of this sounds like I'm being a downer, I don't think it makes me an asshole to say that having a baby, and even the preliminaries to having a baby, are very expensive and taxing. So enough bullshit about "waiting until later to figure out what I'm going to do". I'm doing my part, are you?

Title stolen from here.