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Are you in a hurry or something? Okay, okay, I’ll get to the point. No, that’s not what I wanted to tell you about.

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By the time I got to the studio my boots were full of snow and my pant legs were soaked. I had to climb up onto the snowbank and then back down and when my foot hit the street again, I slid on the ice that’s under the snow. You heard me about the snowbanks, right? The city should really get on that. Where was I going? Oh, I was heading to my studio which is in a rental house that we also own, one block away. I mean, there is a sidewalk and all the neighbours try to keep it shoveled out, but then the plough keeps covering it over again and after a while we give up. I’m walking down with my basket a car comes barrelling down the hill and I have to climb up onto the snowbank to get out of the way, there wasn’t time to get to one of the driveways. There are super high snowbanks on either side. It’s really steep, and these days just wide enough for one car to pass by. I live on a street not far from downtown. I was walking down the hill from our house to the studio. I want to talk to you about what happened this morning. If you need it, I probably have it in here. Yeah, it does fit everything, and I mean everything. *Being a satirical recounting of (at least partially) true events occurring in a rapidly-growing mountain town during the unprecedented year of 2022.Īround here we call this kind of basket a Kootenay carry-on. *Being a satirical recounting of (maybe, partially) true events occurring in a rapidly-growing mountain town during the unprecedented year of 2022. Hello? Hello? I think the call disconnected.Ĭan you hear me? Shoot. What do you think? Do you think that will work?

No food, no smoking.Ĭan you ask him? We can try that for a few nights and see how that goes for everyone. But smoking is a hard no, that’s what I want to say. I can clear out a little area in the garage itself, not in my son’s car. Could find out who it is and talk to them? Tell them it’s okay if they come back, but no smoking. So, yeah, I guess that’s why I’m calling.

It’s a liability for us.īut if he - sorry, they - weren’t smoking, it would probably be alright. It’s a fire hazard, isn’t it? I’m pretty sure our insurance wouldn’t cover an accidental fire caused by a homeless person smoking. Although it kind of sucks for our son, whose car now stinks like cigarettes and armpit. I don’t know how I feel about a homeless person sleeping in our garage. And your shelter, I mean thank goodness you folks are there, but - isn’t that the place people are supposed to go when they don’t have a place to sleep? I have no idea how he - they, sorry - found it. It’s just, it’s kind of tucked away in a residential neighbourhood, at the end of a lane? I mean, no one can find this place, even with detailed directions.

It’s really old, it’s practically like being outside. Oh, yeah and the garage wasn’t locked either. Right, we can’t make assumptions about gender anymore. So, yeah, I guess I’m assuming it was a man. Just some rags and, well, to be honest, I think a lot of empty take out food containers.īut look, we’re not worried about anything being stolen, we’re more worried about the homeless guy? Do you think he’s okay? I wondered if you knew who he might be? Anyway, because it doesn’t lock, he doesn’t keep anything in his car. He says it’s hard to get parts, he has to hunt around online and sometimes the parts take ages to get here, what with the floods and supply chain issues. No, he doesn’t think anything was stolen. Not just of cigarettes, but of, well, body odour? And his stuff was strewn about as though to make room for someone to lie down. Like not just one cigarette, but like someone had been smoking in his car all night. So our tenant, who is also our son, reported that his car smelled of cigarette smoke. I mean, we can’t rent to just anyone, and it’s not our fault that the taxes just keep going up and the cost of utilities, don’t get me started. We can’t advertise on Facebook anymore because people just abuse us and call us greedy. We do try, you know, to do our part and be reasonable landlords. I have a studio there, where I do my creative work. You serve that population, so I think you should know about what happened last night. But I thought I wasn’t supposed to call the police anymore? Poverty’s not a crime, right? So I thought I’d call you, because this has to do with a homeless person and you handle them. I’d like to report an incident? Something that happened last night. Hello? Is this the emergency shelter? Oh, good.

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