Twisted Montreal

On Friday nights, St-Laurent street in Montreal is really a happening spot. I came out of Nexxt club this past Friday feeling exhausted but energized, as I usually am. I had to wait for a friend to drive by before I left. So we waited in the bus shelter in front of the club, and this is when I realized that some Montrealers really are scatterbrained.

This bus shelter was a nice, normal bus shelter with all four sides up and standing. The only thing that made me question the level of intelligence of the people who put it there was that this bus shelter was backwards.

Usually, you step out the bus shelter doorway, into the bus. On this one, the doorway was not facing the street, but facing the club, meaning to get to the bus, you have to get out from the back and walk around to the bus.

There is little convenience to this, and it could also be dangerous. Imagine some drunk person gets out of the club, waits for the bus, and when it does come, walks out the front the way people normally do, and boom, hits his head and passes out.

Or were the people who installed it there drunk and thought it was the other way around?

Another thing about Montrealers that perplexes me is the fact that there is a bilingual sign law, even if the word is spelled the same in English and French. We always see things like OUVERT and underneath, in smaller letters, Open.

In Montreal, there are signs that read SERVICE, and underneath, Service. Yes, the larger print is in French, while the smaller one is in English. Go figure.