A random walk down Bay St

If you didn't get that reference, you clearly are not a finance person and you are here to learn - and that's ok.


I thought I would kick this off by sharing an email I sent my fellow blogers a while ago...

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So I have not worked out in a very long time and as I think you know, my calves still hurt from having to walk up the stairs when the elevators were out of service on Sunday. This morning was particularly shitty - wind, rain, blablabla. So I am walking on Bay street, minding my own business, when a sudden gust of wind rips my umbrella out of my hands and sends it flying across the middle of the street. Now, I would have normally let it go and just bought another one (to save myself from the embarrassment of running after an umbrella in downtown Toronto – how fruity is that- but perhaps more importantly, because just the idea of running made my calves and I VERY uncomfortable).

However, the sight of my $250 Burberry umbrella flying through the streets was ugly enough to make me run. So I start sprinting after my luxury item, cutting through cars and never loosing focus of the goal. However, as I was running, I realized I had just slammed my $425 Hugo Boss shoes in a large puddle of water and that the slash had compromised the integrity of my $275 pair of maroon Zegna trousers (flat front, straight leg, just wonderful) Even my $55 pair of cashmere-blend socks was soaked!!! But even worse, my $1000 Hugo Boss jacket had been in contact with not one, but two homeless people who were trying to help me (evidently hoping that they would get some form of compensation for their efforts) As I dodged a speeding cab (think mid-air lunge with a half-back hyperextension) I came to realize that the umbrella was not worth it. I stopped running, looked around only to realize everyone was staring at me, and did what any self-respecting man would do: I pulled out my Blackberry, and threw it on one of the homeless guys that tried to help. what a morning.
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That's it for now. Oh - and please note that no one was hurt in the making of this story.