VIA and Speed dating, but not together

I usually give a mini review about the movie I watched on Tuesday, but since today, I watched Brokeback Mountain again, and I already reviewed that, there's no point in re-reviewing a movie. The nice thing about this evening was that a friend from orchestra was in the same theatre that I was, and he thought it was a good movie, though he had difficulty relating to it. His friend, who apparently cries in many movies, didn't cry in this one. And I cried in my usual spots. Of course. I had originally wanted to watch Eight Below tonight, but I wanted to see it with a friend, and he was unavailable tonight. So, I put it off until next week.

On a totally different note, I had a not so hot voyage with VIA on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2006. I got on the train at Union station in Toronto, which left at 5:00 p.m.. However, about 6:15 p.m., we reached to an area close to Brighton, where there was a freight train derailment earlier the same day. Thus, we were stuck at that part of track about until 8:15 p.m.. After the slow part of passing the rails, one of the coaches needed repairing, as the engineer was smelling smoke. To make this long journey short (I was on the train for about 8 hours), we were supposed to arrive at 9:15 p.m., and we didn't arrive until 12:50 a.m.. By VIA policy, I'm supposed to get a 50% reimbursement for future credit of that one trip, which must be used within six months. However, since it was so close to 4 hours, which is when they give a 100% reimbursement, I am going to argue with them to attempt to get the 100%. I called on Monday, Feb. 27, 2006 the Customer Service/Relations number, but all of their agents were busy, so I had to leave a message. They have not called me back yet. If I don't get a call tomorrow (Wednesday, Mar. 1, 2006), then I'll call back on Thursday.

And finally, speed dating. A friend of mine put it nicely yesterday when she said that speed dating is shopping for meat at a meat market for polite people. How true, how wisely spoken.