Monday, January 11, 2010

The Most Humbling (and probably the only) Rocket You Will Ever Ride

One of the most disheartening thing about the public transit system is the act of exchanging your hard-scrounged for monies for the measly ttc tokens. They look like humiliated toonies; turned inside out and freeze dried. If I'm going to shell out three bucks for something like that I'd like it to be a bit more impressive. Give it the collective surface area of the coins you insert in and put a pirate with a machine gun riding a giraffe on it. I want a big freakin' medallion that Flava Flave himself would trade in one of his clocks for to hang around his neck. What's that you say? A token that size is impractical? Here's another fun solution that doubles as being rather cathartic. Using the same technology as the metro pass swipe cards, exchange the tokens for little plastic daggers you can use to "stab" the turnstiles. Turnstiles will also be appropriately converted to resemble stab-able things such as morklocks, trolls, Nazis, mimes, etc... Sure you run the risk of confusing weapons for transit fare and vice versa (not to mention creating unwanted parallels between little people and hobbits), but what's one more element of danger to the public transit system, honestly? If anything, it should make waiting at one of the 24h bus stops late at night even more secure with the fear of knowing anyone could be packing.

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