I love how there's no calamity poverty cannot make worse

[james_davis_nicoll]

My bus pass went missing. It is half way through the month so the cheapest solutions if it does not turn up are either strips of tickets or walking everywhere. Or a combination.

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[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

You said a mouthful, toots.

[seawasp]

What? Professional SF reviewers aren't paid lavishly enough to live in giant mansions and have servants do the walking for them?

Yeah, there's not even a minor annoyance that being too poor can't turn into a disaster, either. I'm not there at the moment, but I've been there.

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

ObKeithLynch: Get a bike. With a decent sized bike trailer you can haul an entire year's supply of toilet paper back from the grocery store with no problem. The hard part is avoiding streets that were built with tax-payer money -- anyone who uses public roads is endorsing robbery. Now excuse me, I have to complain to Google for not making YouTube backwards compatible with my twenty-five year old text browser.

[elusis.livejournal.com]

If a bus pass is a problem, presumably a bike would also be a problem, one on a larger scale.

[rozasharn.livejournal.com]

While I was thinking that a bike is subject to even more physical-fitness requirements than a car, and therefore even less suitable to our host.

[realinterrobang.livejournal.com]

Surely between his disability and spectacular world-class accident prone-ness, you wouldn't want to inflict a bike...

...-riding James on the innocent civilians, flora, fauna, and landscape of Kitchener-Waterloo, would you? :)

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

As far as I know I still know how to ride a bike. It's true I am blind and deaf on the left side but I was when I was riding a bike regularly.

[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

The Working Centre is just around the corner from where James lives, and they have a fully equipped bike repair shop called Recycle Cycle in there. They may be able to fix James up with a suitable refurbished bike.

http://www.theworkingcentre.org/recycle-cycles/153

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

The only (*only*) advantage I've seen so far to the roll out of the Compass Card in Vancouver is that if I lose the physical card, I can shut it down online and move the value to a new physical card. I'm not sure that feature outweighs the other hassles (getting the new physical card and performing the switcheroo without needing to, you know, use the transit system), but there you go.

And yes - having just enough money to last until the next money means that any new thing creates an entire system meltdown. Best wishes for finding the bus pass.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Ooh, dammit, I know how much that hurts the wallet. I thought I'd lost my renewal card that around the New Year, only to find that the January passes were the same colour as a $5 bill and it was stuck to one in my wallet.

-- Steve's hoping this is something similarly benign.

[sidhe-uaine42.livejournal.com]

Been there, done that, t-shirt's in the wash.

I now keep my passes on my key ring it's big enough to be a bracelet. I attached a key ring with a little ID "pocket" on it that acts as an ID wallet (I have my photo ID in it as well as my bus pass)and I haven't lost a pass in close to a year.

My previous passes cost $64(US)/month.

Perhaps you could look into a retractable lanyard key ring to attach to your belt/a belt loop as well as an ID pouch/key ring to hold your pass. *blush*

[realinterrobang.livejournal.com]

I had that happen to me about a year ago. Then in the summer, I lost my wallet in the backseat of a cab, literally steps from my front door (I had just finished paying the driver, and somehow my wallet didn't stay in my pocket).

Did you know that the Government of Canada no longer issues physical SIN cards?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I did not.

[realinterrobang.livejournal.com]

They do not. They will issue a "Letter of Confirmation of SIN," which sounds like something you should get from an Antipope, but not an actual replacement plastic card. So don't be stupid and/or forgetful and leave yours in your wallet after getting a new job and having to show it, and then lose your wallet...

*wah wah wah wahh...*

[jazzfish]

Super exciting for those of us who didn't have a SIN card (on account of not living here) before they stopped making them!

I believe the explanation is along the lines of "we want to encourage people who don't need your SIN to stop asking for it."

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Crap, that sucks. I'm sorry.

[resonant.livejournal.com]

http://resonant.livejournal.com/402823.html

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

Best interrogate the cats. They may have stolen it so they can use the bus to have fun cat adventures.

[tuwr.livejournal.com]

How much is a monthly card?

[melita66.livejournal.com]

If it's Grand River Transit, and James is not eligible for any discounts: CAD$79. If he needs to replace the ID card too: CAD$5.

http://www.grt.ca/en/fares/FarePrices.asp

[nebogipfel.livejournal.com]

So time to commission another review