Tumbling down a slippery slope

Sometimes work days are painfully dull or painfully busy. Then again, sometimes work days are just painful. Today was one of those days.

I toppled on my way back to the office from lunch today. I say toppled because my knees buckled and slammed into the tiled floor with a bruising thud. Some cleaner, instead of mopping up a soupy mess just outside the doors of an exit, just put up a bright yellow sign a few feet away announcing a slippery floor. Lot of good that does you as you see it from the corner of your eye.

Dozens of people on the escalator in front of me watched as I struggled to get up, brushed myself off and limped away. Some guy called out that it looked like a potential lawsuit. I replied that it was alright, but he better watch out, it's slippery.

On top of dealing with my bruised knee (aka ego), I spent the afternoon struggling to deal with the much anticipated report about what to do with the Gardiner Expressway that was finally released.

In the end, I think I pulled my shit together, but I have to admit relying on other reporters for your information is quite frustrating.

More time ends up being spent puzzling through a story then I would if I had attended the event.

But more frustrating than that is that while the Gardiner report recommends the city act as quickly as possible to dismantle the central portion of the expressway, nothing will be decided on it in the end.

Me being the city slicker, I agree it should be taken down and the $490-million pricetag seems reasonable.

It seems it's about to become a major election issue, as mayoral candidate Jane Pitfield said herself.

And while the election is going to be a major headache for me work-wise, I'm actually strangely enough looking forward to all the politicking that's about to begin.