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.

Thanks for everyones patience.

Scott

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

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.

Submitted by Forrest

And this is only scratching the surface, and doesn’t begging to describe how detrimental this disgusting practice is.

The city is completely neglecting its duty by allowing widespread theft and constant use of shopping carts. Full of wine bottles they make a massive racket. One guy literally runs through our lane ways creating a terrible noise with total disregard of others. Then if he spots another binner he screams at him.

Stop this before all our neighborhoods begin to resemble the east side.

Submitted by Louis

I just had a horrible experience at the Fountainhead on Davie Street.

A former acquaintance of mine went into the bar last night and left not paying his bill.
I went in there today for a drink and had the Manager, call me on it, in front of people I know! His approach was one of judgment, no curiosity to hear what I knew. And then proceeded to bicker with me! About someone else’s behavior. Good grief! Give your head shake CoCo!

CoCo, first approached me about this person when I was on the phone, he chose correctly, I might add to wait ’til I got off the phone, once off the phone he then decided to go on this ludicrous diatribe about customers not paying their bills and attaching their credibility or lack thereof, to mine, in front of other customers who I happen to know, bad choice! CoCo needs to take a course in critical thinking; I believe one is scheduled to start at V.C.C. next Friday

It left me feeling embarrassed and humiliated. I talked to the former manager of Celebrities Carl O. and Richard B. and they were stunned by C.C.’s approach to me, although not surprised, because from what I gather he has done this sort of thing before, burning customer bridges and leaving the owner to vacuum up the ashes.

Anyways, I just need to get it off my chest and probably won’t go back for sometime. Also, it won’t hurt to detoxify myself for a month or so.

Submitted by von Thurn und Taxis

This is just something I have been wanting to get off my chest since I can’t actually tell the person while they are shaving.
I wouldn’t want them to hurt themselves in a wild shaving accident because I disturbed the delicate balance they have going on the slippery shower room floor. No, that would be very bad. (Hehehe, just picturing it in my mind.) Now I feel better.

Submitted by G.F.

I found this photograph over at the Seen in Vancouver flickr pool and thought I would share.

Submitted by Joe