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John,
I think that was a good day today going out to McDonald's for lunch and then playing “SMART
MOUTH.” If you think that Carol’s good with words because she goes to school five full days
every week during the school year, I wonder if she knows a lot of words that either end with the
letter K or start with either K or Y. I also wonder if
she’d know other words that start with E and end
with N besides numbers such as eighteen, eleven, etc. And did you notice that there aren’t any
Fs, Is, Js, Qs, Us, Vs, Xs, or Zs in “SMART MOUTH?” This is just like there are also no 6s or 9s
in the game “SORRY.”
My mom got out of her dentist appointment at 12 noon today. I had originally told you that
she was going to browse around Guildford Mall after that, but she decided that she needed to get
groceries instead so the very next stop after the dentist she went across the street to the
Save-On-Foods store at 152nd Street and Fraser Highway in Fleetwood. Remember I said that I had
just enough cranberry juice left to drink with my snack today and then you said “better get some
more.” Well, she got me some more today at Save-On-Foods. She got two bottles, one of the usual
Ocean’s Spray brand and she got me a bottle of the Save-On brand (WESTERN CLASSICS) to try.
She said that the Save-On brand was on sale today and she also said that it’s probably still
cheaper than the Ocean’s Spray even when it’s not on sale. She got out of Save-On around 1:30PM
and knew it would take her some time to drive back to South Surrey, she got back into South
Surrey around 1:45 so she stopped at South Point and browsed around Winners for a few minutes
before she came back home. She didn’t buy anything there, but she did use their public washroom.
She didn’t need to have any lunch when she got home, she grabbed a turkey sandwich at Save-On
and ate it as she drove.
Speaking of sandwiches, the last time I went to McDonald's with my parents a few months ago I
had my usual Chicken McNuggets with medium fries and a medium Sprite while both of my parents
each got a turkey BLT sub. Whenever I go to SUBWAY, I usually get a 6 inch turkey on white with
mayonnaise. I don’t like any cheese, veggies, bacon, etc on my SUBWAY subs, just the turkey and
the mayo (and I think they usually butter it) and that’s it. When I was at McDonald's with my
parents that last time a few months ago, I remember them telling me that there’s also some other
turkey sandwich on the menu. We can’t remember what this one’s called, it might be the “
Oven
Roasted Turkey.” I don’t like my sandwiches toasted, so my mom
said that if I wanted to try one of these sometime I could ask if they don’t have to toast it.
Again the BLT was not the turkey one that I wanted to try from McDonald's, but my mom does
remember the BLT she had that time not being too toasted even though it was suppose to be
toasted. She also said that I could ask for no tomato and no lettuce. I told my mom about the
Southwest Chicken one that you had today, she then said that I probably wouldn’t like it because
she told me that anything with the word “Southwest” in it might be a bit spicy.
We also saw the muffins inside the front counter today when we were waiting to order our food
at McDonald's, and remember I thought they were cookies. I know that some of the A&W
locations (including our one down here in Semiahmoo Mall) now have cookies, but only two
kinds to choose from right now; Chocolate Chunk (which would be my preference of the two) and
Oatmeal Raisin. Just like I prefer to have milkshakes for separate snacks (my snack in
the afternoon for example) instead of with meals, I would prefer not to have an A&W cookie with
a meal since the whistle dog, the fries, and the Sprite would probably be enough for me. Maybe
one afternoon when I’m with you we could go to the A&W and I could try a Chocolate Chunk cookie
with my medium Sprite for my snack.
And speaking about muffins, I like some muffins but maybe not McDonald's ones. Every so often
my mom will buy me the Safeway brand muffins to have for my snack in the evenings. She also
bought some pumpkin muffins from Save-On-Foods a few months ago back at Halloween for me to try,
I liked them. Safeway brands I have already had and still like include; blueberry, bran, low-fat
blueberry-bran, and chocolate-strawberry. Last time we bought muffins from Safeway, we saw that
they also have chocolate chip. I might try some of those chocolate chip after I get some more of
my Christmas snacks eaten up.
I told you in a previous E-mail that I don’t like pie:
> ...they might stop at Safeway to get a couple more of those same donuts for me with the red
and green Christmas-coloured
> sprinkles as well as pie for themselves for dessert at Christmas dinner. I'll just be happy
having one of the cupcakes my mom
> made for dessert after Christmas dinner, I don't like pie myself...
Remember I told you my parents got a pumpkin pie to have for their dessert after Christmas
dinner. Now you know I like pumpkin muffins, and I may not like raspberry pie but I had a
raspberry cream chocolate from that “box of fancier-looking assorted Purdys ones” that Mac got
me for Christmas. It was for my snack after supper on the evening of
Monday Jan.7,2008 after you left (that would
have been the day I was with you while my mom had her doctor’s appointment) when I had one of
my Mint Melties (the dark chocolate one) with two of the chocolates out of that box; the
raspberry cream and an orange meltie. That wasn’t the first evening I had chocolates out of that
box for my snack, I had two other chocolates out of that same box for my snack one evening the
week before; a strawberry cream and a mint meltie. Again, I still got lots of my Christmas
snacks left to eat up. You saw on my list of what I got that I attached to the E-mail I sent you
on Christmas Day that I got lots of boxes of chocolates, out of all those that one from Mac is
the only one that had been opened so far as of now. In addition to all the boxes of chocolates
on that list, my dad brought home an assorted box of Purdys chocolates called “Smoothies” on his
first day back to work after his time off between Christmas and New Years. Those are probably
from the people at his work.
You didn’t seem up to snuff on that story about that North Vancouver senior who was killed in
a hit and run last October. After I had sent you the previous E-mails this last weekend, my mom
told me that she saw on the news that police had arrested a 24 year-old tow-truck driver from
Surrey named Avtar Singh Dhaliwal and charged him with failure to stop at the scene of an
accident involving the death of 77 year-old Douglas Hull. She said that they didn’t really say
whether or not the guy was drinking before he killed the senior, but they didn’t make the arrest
until three months after the guy was killed so they couldn’t test him for alcohol.
Did you know that the Evergreen Line is
most likely going to be an LRT (Light rail transit) line? That’s the
line that they’re talking about building from Lougheed Town Centre to Coquitlam Town Centre.
This is cheaper than skytrain. Heavy rail transit is better in my opinion, and that’s what
skytrain is. I don’t care about Coquitlam anyway, I told you in one of the last E-mails that I
don’t go there so it wouldn’t bother me if that line’s going to be something that’s cheaper than
skytrain. I’d rather see the extension to UBC be skytrain or I would have preferred to have seen
the Canada Line be skytrain, but still think
about the money that they’re going to spend building the Evergreen
Line. Do you think it’s even necessary that they build a rapid transit
line for Coquitlam? Do you think that Coquitlam even needs a rapid transit line? I saw a story
on the news a while back where they said that the money could have been used to buy a bunch more
new transit buses, but we won’t get those extra buses now that they’re going to use the money to
build the Evergreen Line. I think we need more
buses more than Coquitlam needs a rapid transit line.
Besides the Evergreen Line, I think TransLink in general’s just too cheap. Instead of
skytrain, the Canada Line‘s going to be a
cheaper form of heavy rail transit and Hyundai which is a cheap Korean car manufacturer is going
to be the one that manufactures the cars that will be used on the
Canada Line. Now this one I care about
because as soon as the line opens in 2009, the 351 which is the number for the bus route that
currently runs past my place on 16th Avenue and goes from there all the way into downtown
Vancouver will terminate at the Canada Line’s
future Bridgeport station in North Richmond and will no longer continue downtown. I would then
have to transfer to the Canada Line at the
Bridgeport station if I wish to go downtown. I
myself am against anything that’s cheaper than skytrain. I know that anything that’s cheaper
than skytrain (including light rail) will be less reliable, will break down more often than
skytrain, and will be more likely to break down than skytrain. And I’m not the only person who’s
against the 351 terminating in Richmond as soon as the the
Canada Line opens, many people take this
route and other bus routes into Vancouver from the suburbs to go to St. Paul’s Hospital
including my friend, Mac, as well as people who go there for cancer treatments. As far as I
understand the Canada Line will travel
through downtown Vancouver to Waterfront station via a different route that doesn’t include the
St. Paul’s Hospital so this would make it hard for those people to get there. Either they would
probably have to take a long walk to St. Paul’s from the nearest Canada
Line station or do a bunch of bus transfers between St. Paul’s and the
nearest station. I also told you about that lady who my mom read about in the paper at one time
who takes the 351 bus route to and from work everyday because it stops right in front of and
across the street from where she works in Vancouver. She says that she will start driving her
car to and from work everyday as soon as the line opens because the
Canada Line also won’t be going anywhere near
the place she works at. Unless they implement another bus route that travels
between downtown Vancouver and the future Bridgeport station (and goes by St. Paul’s Hospital
between those two destinations), then as soon as the
Canada Line opens I might have to start
taking the King George Highway bus (route 321) up to the skytrain station in North Surrey
from White Rock Centre and then take the Expo Line into Vancouver. On the other hand, it might
be a fun trip sometime just to take the 351 to it’s future terminus, hop on the
Canada Line to downtown, transfer to
the Expo skytrain Line at Waterfront station, take
Expo Line
back to Surrey, and then take the 321 back to White Rock Centre. Carol even said one time when she was
working with me that maybe her and I will end up on the Canada Line someday, I’m now
disappointed that she’s not working with me long enough for that to ever happen.
Also, I think a skytrain extension to “South Surrey/White Rock” would be decades away from
now, that’s if it even does happen. I think an extension of the Expo Line
past the King George station along Fraser Highway out to Langley would come before an extension
to South Surrey is even talked about or before that extension to South Surrey becomes a top
priority. I know that a lot more people live out that way than the amount of people who
currently live in South Surrey. If South Surrey gets anything in the foreseeable future, I think
we might get an express bus route between White Rock Centre, Newton, and the Surrey Central
skytrain station via the King George Highway. Maybe an express route that
would use those 60 foot accordion (articulated) buses, I call them accordion buses. And
don’t forget that an extension to South Surrey too would bring more crime to
my area.
See you Thurs at 1PM. It’s looking like our visit that day will be from 1 til 4:30 and I’ll
probably have some green grapes for my snack with cranberry juice to drink. If the weather’s
nice, maybe we could go for a walk that day. You said today that you thought a walk might be
good for me after staying around home too much lately and all my bad stomach problems. My mom
might bring me home my Safeway Chinese food for supper that night. If she brings it home at
4:30, I’d probably eat it around 5 even though I usually eat around 6PM.
-Neil
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