On the Sunday evening of August 7th, I rode up Broadview to Mortimer and then east. I was stopped at the Pape traffic light when a guy waiting for the Mortimer bus started making conversation. “Nice day for a bike ride!” he commented. I hadn’t really thought about it. He said it wasn’t as hot as Friday and Saturday had been. I argued that there’d been some cloud cover the day before. He shared the information that on Monday the humidity would be returning. The light change and I said “See ya later!”
I explored
the streets from Mortimer, north to Plains Rd and from Greenwood east to
Linnsmore. Before starting my return trip, I looked along Cosburn for a place
to pee and saw Sophie’s Sports Bar and Grill. When I opened the door I was
surprised to see a priest on the way out, accompanied by an attractive Black
woman and someone else that I didn’t notice.
I
asked the rotund, late middle-aged jolly Greek man with the apron if I could
use the washroom and he enthusiastically pointed the way, almost insisting that
I use their facilities. The bar reeked from the odour of insecticide and I was
choked just from arriving and leaving. I couldn’t imagine sitting there and
breathing those fumes while drinking a beer.
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