Listening to Hamilton page 5
MORE FRAGMENTS OVERHEARD AROUND HAMILTON 2004
He took the bus to New York 13 hours and took the bus back here the next day 13 hours.
We’re dealing with the big box phenomenon in Meadowlands.
We need to start nurturing that Timbit in the donut effect.
My most prized possession is my grandmother’s paddle that she won in a canoe race in Hamilton Bay.
She didn’t know where the Red Hill Creek was when she came into office.
I begged him enough that he said he wanted to punch me in the head.
When Tweedsmuir is finished, I’m retiring. I’ve had enough.
They only cover the windows in the lower economic areas – they wouldn’t dare at Westmount. We’d all complain.
- Did you ever find your keys in the woods?
- They were in the car.
There are 44,000 trees in the plan, and 20,000 are already gone. That’s been since the end of October.
They haven’t got to the stream yet. That will be the worst.
The city can’t afford it. It will be a city road, and the city will have to maintain it.
It will cost 13 to 14 million to maintain a year. Someone should of thought about this sooner.
They try to justify it by saying it is helping the provincial authority.
The province has the power to do anything to the cities. The province has the power to create legislation.
It should be distributed on the mountain and the southern reaches of Hamilton. They need it.
I haven’t had a hard life, always had a roof over my head, but I’ve had some bad things.
I didn’t want to go to Vietnam, so I came to Hamilton.
- Can I get a refill?
- It’s 54 cents.
You can’t spit in downtown Hamilton without hitting a prostitute.
I’m not sure if they’re just well dressed women from the hotel or prostitutes.
I had to go downtown to pick up festival tickets. It’s really gone downhill.
He bought the Tivoli and the place next door, and a year ago got rid of them.
He promised me that his parents would come, but we were the only people over thirty at this thing.
For under a hundred thousand, you can get a building in Hamilton, not a big building.