A pretty weird Saturday

On Saturday, July 24, 2010, I had a relatively bizarre Saturday.

I decided that I would go out to a club and enjoy a beer...

On the way out to the club, I got to the metro station that I was at and the metro was stopped at our station. I didn't notice that something was wrong until I got onto the platform. When I got to the station, I saw that there was a metro. I thought that it just arrived, so I rushed to get it. I saw a big crowd of people on the monitor, but in the quick instant of running to catch the metro, I thought nothing of it. I thought that maybe they were jamming the doors for fun and that metro police are on their way to clear this out.

As I approached, it turns out that a young man had been stabbed.

On the way back from the club, all decked out in club gear, I got to the Night bus terminal at about 3:05 a.m.. The next bus was at 3:30 a.m., so I decided to go into the 24 hour McDonald's close by to get an iced coffee or a quick sandwich. There, I saw two of my current summer school students. They are in my Secondary III math class.

What are Secondary III girls, going into secondary IV, so they are 15, maybe at most 16 year old doing at a 24 hour McDonald's on a Saturday evening/Sunday morning at 3:05 a.m..? I don't care if you went to a late showing of a movie - but no movie is THAT late. Where are the parents? Why would you let your teenage daughters be out at that time of night? Don't people set curfews anymore? When I was a teenager at that age, I had to be home at the latest 12:00 p.m..

Quite a bizarre evening.