Is it possible to start a no-talking-on-the-mobile-in-the-bus rule in Vancouver? Is it too late for that? Can they maybe put some signs up? Give people hints that it is a little intrusive? Yes now I am back in my own country so I can complain about the way things are. Maybe the no-calls-on-the-train standard works in Japan because people generally don’t like taking up too much of the public space (whether physical or the auditory space). I guess what surprises me is how it isn’t just people who take calls that happen to come during an inconvenient time. There are people who, instead of passing their time with a book or a sudoku, make sure that the social fabric of their life is always played by the breeze of their voice and occasional gusts of hearty laughter. Letting one person go they look out the window for 30 seconds, let out a long sigh and then open that address book once again. Why don’t people use SMS?

That’s my rant. I am grumpy right now because I had a trip to the dentist today. There’s another one tomorrow too and then crossing of fingers that I don’t require a root canal two months from now. Experiencing current pain. I don’t think it is completely from the fillings I received…but from needle wounds in the side of my mouth. Either that or while the left side of my face was frozen for half the day I accidently gnawed through my inner cheek. Time to lock myself in my room.