Nice people in Toronto?!?

Hey there! Today started out ok (hey, I'm at work early and haven't started yet)... Rick has some training/orientation session here downtown so we came into work together. We bought McD's for breakfast (his of which is still in MY bag, as we forgot to divy out the food) and caught the subway from York Mills. From there, we got off at Queen, used the bank machine there, and walked down to King. It's a helluva lot farther from Queen to King then I thought it was. Oh well, he got there on time, and we found the building he needed. I then proceeded to walk back up to Queen and Bay (just north actually) to where I work. I continued along King, turned north on Bay, stopped at Tim's to get a coffee to go with my McDonald's and continued up the street.

Now, here's the purpose of the title... everywhere I go, I see rude people. People pushing people, cars honking at one another, old men giving me dirty looks on the subway as he doesn't have as much personal space as the 1/2 mm that everyone else has... it was really nice to see someone actually CARE about what happened to SOMEONE ELSE. Ok, here's what I did: To get to Tim's I crossed Bay at Adelaide to get to the west side. Went to Tim's, then walked north, and crossed Bay back to the east side, and then crossed Queen from there. I get on the north-east corner of Queen and Bay, and there's a few people waiting for the light, and a guy on roller-blades cutting through everyone. He sneaks behind a guy (between him and the wall) who just happens to be drinking coffee from his thermos, whams into him on the back, and the force pushes the roller-blade-guy away, and the coffee to spit out of the coffee-drinking-guy. RBGuy actually stopped, turned around and came back, asking CDGuy if he was ok. Which he was, as he nodded and proceeded to de-coffee his face. Life went on as normal, they crossed the road, and I proceeded around old City Hall to work.

The point of that whole story: RBGuy didn't HAVE to stop. And most times I've seen it, they don't stop. Most RB-people or Bike-people (here in downtown and not pertaining to Michele and Bill!) tend to be rude and not give a crap about who they cut-off or how they affect traffic. But RBGuy actually DID stop, and make sure CDGuy was ok before he went on with his day. Yeah, CDGuy may have a few coffee stains on his shirt, but at least he can arrive at work (or whereever he was going) knowing that he was apologized to, and he wasn't whammed into on purpose.

I hope I see more polite people in Toronto - people that do something that others don't normally do, just because it's nice. It takes less time than you think to apologize to someone, and may make someone else's day a tad nicer for the effort.