Rant!Vancouver

It amazes me that the service/retail industry in Vancouver is complete and utter garbage!!! You would think that being a Metropolitan city, that people would be kind and friendly. Well not so.

I called around the city looking for a wheelset for my bike that I’m building so I can commute to work. I have a nicer bike, but that would so get stolen!

Anywho, I called around to a bunch of shops and it appalls me by the service of these places! I don’t get a “Hello, Simon’s Bike Shop. How may I help you?”. Instead I get a “Shop, what do you want?”. I was hesitant to call there cuz I’ve heard about Simon’s Bike Shop’s bad reputation, but wow! What a rude SOB!!! Don’t ever go to Simon’s Bike Shop or even call Simon’s Bike Shop. I want Google to find this Rant near the top! Denman Bike Shop as well. “We’re busy, I can’t help you”. WTF?! I go in there once in a while on my way home from work. I don’t get a “Hello”, nothin!

Is it cuz they get a tonne of tourists and me being Asian that I get the rudeness? Sorry man, but I lived here my whole life and I am a business professional! F U! Man!

Anyways, Bicycle Sports Pacific, Dizzy Cycles and Our Community Bikes were great! Total service! Asked questions that pertained to what I was looking for unlike Simon’s Bike Shop who asked me if my bike was stolen?! WTF?! F U Simon and your gang of inexperienced SOB employees. I remember going by Simon’s Bike Shop and an old lady was coming out of there furious saying she got ripped off!

Well that’s my RANT! Remember Simon’s Bike Shop is shit.

Lawrence C.

Rant!Vancouver was recently moved to a new server. In the move I forgot to update the email accounts. So for the past few weeks anyone trying to submit an overheard conversation was unable to do so. Everything is fixed now and you can use our submission form as before.

Thanks for everyones patience.

Scott

Please find time the morning of November 11th to attend Remembrance Day Ceremonies in your area. The City of Vancouver’s 2006 Remembrance Day ceremonies will be held on:

Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 10:10 a.m.
Cenotaph at Victory Square
West Hastings Street, between Cambie and Hamilton

These ceremonies, which include a wreath laying to honour those who gave their lives in the service of our country, will mark the 89th anniversary commemorating the First World War Armistice.

The prelude at the Cenotaph will begin at 10:10 a.m. with a performance by the Vancouver Bach Youth Choir. The official program begins at 10:30 a.m., followed by two minutes of silence at 11 a.m., and the placing of wreaths at the Cenotaph. A parade of veterans, ex-service personnel and the Canadian Armed Forces will then move west on Hastings Street and march past the saluting base at Seymour and Hastings, where Mayor Sam Sullivan will take the salute.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.
- John McCrae

I just watched a small piece on Global News which showed some guy pulling his van up to a Vancouver park and proceeding to toss a full bag of garbage into the park.

If any Rant!Vancouver readers managed to record this show can you please upload the video to YouTube so everyone can see what this loser looks like. It has now become my personal mission to find out where this ASSHOLE lives, rent a truck and take all the garbage from the park he was trying to dump his shit into and throw it all in his OWN yard.

If anyone can shed some light onto where this loser lives please let me know be sending me an email.

If you are a local blogger PLEASE link to this post so we can find this loser!

If you use Digg please help get this noticed to we can track this guy down by digging it!

Thanks goes out to Sean at Beyond Robson for the plug and helping us track this guy down.

Stand to the right, Walk to the left.

Submitted by Forrest