Day 37 – My strike family – and me already reflecting on the good times ahead.
Yesterday’s good news of a tentative deal lifted a huge weight off the shoulders of all involved, not just union and non-union members, but the city’s residents as well. It seems like in just a few days, we’ll be able to go back to our normal lives and start the process of forgetting the month of July 2009.
While we await the next steps, we continue to stay visible at our picket lines. Tomorrow, the union members will go vote on the offer and then on Friday, City Council will have their turn at voting on it as well. There’s always a chance that something might go wrong and the offer might be rejected by any of the two parties involved, but right now the hope is heavenly high that we will be going back to work early next week.
This morning you could really tell that the city residents are already starting to put the strike behind them and going back to their normal lives. I was almost hit by the same car twice as the driver, looking for a parking place, did an illegal u-turn, seeing me at the very last minute, and later on after finding a spot, drove out of it when I reached the same location as he saw another more favourable parking space for him. I called him an idiot of course, and he called me a faggot…
All is well in Toronto.
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I think the pink shirt was a dead giveaway. Or did you let loose with a fey scream?
Or did you throw something at him…?
And the shirt is Salmon coloured! Not Pink! Salmon! A noble fish if ever there was one! And verra tasty!
No, I didn’t scream or throw something at him… but I was singing a Donna Summer song out loud!!!
Congrats!