LINDSAY WINCHERAUK
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  • GLUE
    • START
    • BEFORE FACING
    • CHAPTER 1 >
      • CHAPTER 2: IMPROBABLE
      • CHAPTER 3: GLUE
      • CHAPTER 4: WAKING
      • CHAPTER 5: BALANCE
      • CHAPTER 6: ENDING
      • CHAPTER 7: REWARD
      • CHAPTER 8: SPIN
      • CHAPTER 9: 155
      • CHAPTER 10: ACTION
    • CHAPTER 11: LOVING >
      • CHAPTER 12: BIZZARO
      • CHAPTER 14: MUM
      • CHAPTER 15: STRESS
      • CHAPTER 16: HOLD
      • CHAPTER 17: JIM
      • CHAPTER 18: ODE
      • CHAPTER 19: CLEAN SLATE
      • CHAPTER 20: A SHIRT'S TALE
    • CHAPTER 21: BREAKING >
      • CHAPTER 22: DOTS
      • CHAPTER 23: GAY BAR
      • CHAPTER 24: DOTS 2
      • CHAPTER 25: trish
      • CHAPTER 26: CLOSURE
      • CHAPTER 27: denial
      • CHAPTER 28: PUBLIC OFFICE
      • CHAPTER 29: BERT
      • CHAPTER 30: RITCHIE
    • CHAPTER 31: LOOSE ENDS >
      • CHAPTER 32: DISSEMINATION
      • CHAPTER 33: MAYBE
      • CHAPTER 34: LAUGH
      • CHAPTER 35: HERE
      • CHAPTER 36: WHERE ARE THEY NOW
      • CHAPTER 37: COMING
  • D. SAUCE
    • A: OFFER >
      • B: UNPACKING HISTORY - BROUGHTON
      • C: UNPACKING HISTORY - ASHEVILLE
      • D: A LOVE STORY
      • E: HEADING EAST TO ADVENTURE
      • F: HAROLD COURT WASN'T ALWAYS A HEARTLESS PRICK
      • G: PENELOPE + THE VEILED TREE
      • H: JARROD COURT - AN ODDLY GENUINE DUCK
      • I: ARMY LIFE
      • J: SHADOW PEOPLE
      • K: BOTTOM
      • L: LACY + TOMORROW - BAR HOPPING
      • M: BELINDA BLOWS A FUSE
    • N: UPRISING >
      • O: THE UNDERBELLY
      • P: TOXIC LOVE
      • Q: WHO AM I?
      • R: PLANNING THE PLAN
      • S: NEFARIOUS-ITY
      • T: GRIM REAPER
      • U: THE EYE OF THE STORM
      • V: COUP D'ÉTAT
      • W: COUNTDOWN
      • X: BLIND APATHY
      • Y: DIORAMA
      • Z: GOODBYE
    • a: closure >
      • b: sleep comes easy
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    • ME: AREN'T YOU LUCKY >
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        • HAUNTED FROM THE GRAVE
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      • do i look like a senior - a story >
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        • DEAR SOCIAL MEDIA USERS
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        • 24: NO EXCUSES FOR ALL THAT
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        • 24: THE ‘SPARK IS DISAPPEARING—WHAT DO YOU DO?
        • 24: LOVE EACH OTHER AND ENJOY THE RIDE
      • 24: NATURAL DISASTERS, OIL AND DRIVE-THRUS >
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Time in Vancouver:

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MORE DAMIEN RICE

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Thursday April 28, 2005

“Knock, knock.”

“Who’s there?”

“A story idea.”

I walked past these signs offering huge savings daily. An idea began to rattle around in my head: I think there is an article here?

Gas prices: skyrocketing. Hmm, this could be a problem for the world? Apparently, we need fuel for…everything.

A news channel runs a story about the exorbitant prices.

Hey, Mary, let me slam this microphone in front of your face, and go, “These prices are ridiculous. I remember when I used to walk uphill to school thru 6-foot snow drifts, both ways, shoeless, like Joe.”

“Thanks for the clip, Mary. We’ll edit, you will sound Mensa!”

I need to fill up my fuel-efficient vehicle.

STATION 1 SIGN: Save 3.5 cents at the pump. No membership required.

STATION 2 SIGN (across the street): Save 3.5 cents at the pump. No membership required.

Why don’t you post the bleeping real price? I thought.

Are we being gouged?

A story idea is born—let’s see where it went!
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          Wow!

What a couple of months on our home planet Earth.

Let's see: Iraq, terrorist strikes in London and Indonesia, hurricanes, soaring gas prices due to natural disasters and the looming oil crisis. Luckily, in the Lower Mainland, we save 3.5 cents per litre--no membership required. 
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​To top it off, before we can pick up the pieces, and our emotions for that matter, we are being told that the bird flu is going to wipe out a large portion of the world population and we may not be able to do anything to avoid it.

If the birds don't get us, crystal meth will; if not us, then our kids.

If not the birds or meth, then obesity; our girth is rapidly expanding.

As if that was not enough, our beloved and respected teachers decided to bring their issues to the forefront and put those same kids on the mean streets for a couple of weeks. Not that their issues aren't important - but, that's nice timing. After all, we're all a little emotionally bankrupt, to the point where the teachers' strike may have actually been a pleasant distraction. Well, that and who Paris Hilton is pissed at. No wonder those Desperate Housewives are so popular.

The point of my rant, unless you're lucky enough to be counting to 54 million right now, is that the world can be scary. George W. is telling us: "America is currently consuming oil at a rate where we are using 40 per cent more oil than we are capable of producing."
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Whew!

Far too much for any of us to digest and keep a level of happiness at the same time; unless, of course, you are still counting: 53 million... 53 million and 1.

I don't know about you, I want to laugh, I want to smile and, from time to time, I want to cry.

Then it hit me: A solution to a couple of the problems facing the world today, at least the Western world. On a day when I was stressed to the max--working ridiculous hours and still needing to find time to run errands and eat, I pulled into a drive thru at a local fast-food joint. While idling behind nine vehicles, waiting for my sodium-enriched fix, a light went on: BAN DRIVE-THRU'S.
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Just think about it for a moment. If we were to eliminate the drive-thru, roughly 330 million North Americans would have to get off their lazy butts and walk to their favourite burger joint for their fix. OK, maybe only from their cars. To carry it even further, we would eliminate all of those idling vehicles. Think of the oil that would save.

Radical, I know, but it's a start.

LINDSAY WINCHERAUK
28 October 2005
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  1. With the noise of the news being bombarded every day (insert your 2019 crisis here - I'm certain 2019 trumps most years). 
  2. Vancouver Gas Stations offered a loyalty card to consumers where if you signed up, they'd take 3.5 cents off the pump price. Can you say: data mining?
  3. Move over Crystal Meth--Fentanyl and an Opioid Crisis (that politicians "pretend" to care about) have taken the stage.
  4. The Lower Mainland teachers went on strike.
  5. Lotto 649 ='d $54-million
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I wrote this article in 2005, “Iraq, terrorist strikes in London and Indonesia, hurricanes, soaring gas prices—” 

What's changed?

Turn off the news - be kind to each other!

DTES: EYESORE OR OPPORTUNITY

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