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participating stores when i say ive finally arrived i mean it quite literally 1 have finally arrived at work and im late again never mind being out of gas for the third consecutive morning yes ladies and gentlemen im a commuter mind you im not one of those intelligent people who travels from ajax to oshawa or from markham to north york ev ery morning i should be so lucky no some time ago i decided to commute here from my home in acton that community in case youre not familiar with it is a favorite place of residence for commuters mostly though they work 20 minutes west in guelph not stouffville the drive takes me two hours each way most of this can be attributed not to distance but to rushhour traffic rush hour by the way is a misnomer why any- reupholster with torowark why pay more for your reupholstery call toromark in markham for 38 years for the lowest prices anywhere for reupholstery for vi the price of a new suite we can make your furniture like new plus 9 monthly payments call 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stopping to smell every single rose that life throws him even on hwy 7 in rush hour although im just not certain what kind of weirdo it takes to find roses under these circumst ances so thanks to rush hour and roses im a halfhour late for work quite an accomplishment really until today i havent ar rived before 10 am in fact i might have been on time today if i hadnt had an over powering mcmuffin craving back around 745 am when i still thought i was on schedule this is a common denominator among longdistance commuters we all eat two out of our three daily meals in the car those of us who are really efficient have also learned to style hair apply make- up clean nails and scan the morn ing headlines en route traffic hazard nah most of us spend 80 per cent of our time in neutral anyway while the guy in front of us smells yet another mis- erable flower the real threat from these pas times is to oneself fortunately- injuries are seldom more serious than coffee stains on your new dress pants or mascara on your bangs of course the odd commuter has lost an eye to an overly sharp eyeliner pencil but this can be avoided by limiting eye makeup applications to red lights in any case the few valuable minutes afforded by this doubl- ingup of tasks is well worth the risk think about it i spend eight hours every day at work four more on the road eight if im lucky sleeping an hour bathing and generally keeping my body in one piece and an additional hour going to the bank getting gas purchasing groceries washing dishes or laundry or heaven for bid cleaning my apartment you get the picture at last count there were 24 hours in a day this being the case i want to use the remaining two hours that belong to me spar ingly savoring every instant how does one go about savor- ing every instant so far ive spent most of my leisure time phoning friends to whine about the trials of being a commuter perhaps now that my new boss jim thomas has expanded my audience of whinees to 7000 ill be able to devote my time to something a little more produc tive like getting to work by nine i may even stop to smell a rose or two l i 1 1 i 1 1 i i