Here are your kicks and kisses for the week of February 10!
- Thank you to BC Ferries staff who located a large cheque I dropped in the parking lot at Langdale and then located me. We need to remember that, whatever we think of the ferry corporation, the employees are our neighbours on the Coast. Thank them for their good work when you board a ferry.
- Kicks to thrift stores for taking away change rooms “because of COVID.” How do you get COVID from a change room? When you’re buying clothes, you need to try them on.
- Kisses to the terrific team who offer the Repair Café service at Sunnycrest Mall. You fix your customers’ treasures and save the planet from discarded waste every time you perform your magic.
- A classroom full of kisses to all of the volunteers who make Elder College possible on the Coast!
- Kicks to inconsiderate co-workers who only think of themselves first!
- Kicks to politicians that get elected on false promises. Kicks to government overreach with arbitrary mandates, overdevelopment, and over taxing which is overwhelming our beautiful SSC.
- Nice appreciation kiss to the gentleman at the green waste site about a week or so ago. You not only kindly jumped out of your truck and guided me back to the waste pile, but grabbed the bags of pine waste/needles etc. and dumped them. So great to see manners and chivalry alive and well in our community
- A big heart felt hug and thank you to Elaine from Keats Island for the surprise book (The Hidden Life of Trees) and the beautiful card that she mailed me after just an off-chance meeting and conversation we had on the ferry regarding how I felt about the trees being living beings that have been growing long past the 30 years that I have been living on their property in Roberts Creek. She has given me a mental boast seeing that I have to deal and accept that life is short living with AML for the second time.
- Kicks to people who smoke at the bus stop and then get on the bus smelling like a dirty ashtray or a dead, rotting skunk, depending on what they were smoking.
Email your Kisses and Kicks to [email protected]. The deadline for submissions is 1 p.m. every Tuesday for a given week.
Coast Reporter will run kisses and kicks entries as space permits on a first-received, first-published basis.
Submissions must be accompanied by a name and phone number for confirmation by the editor. Names will not be printed in the column unless requested by the writer, for kisses only.
A kick is intended to be an anonymous critique between private parties and may in no way publicly identify an individual, group or business directly or indirectly.
Submissions must be no longer than 30 words. If your thanks or critique is longer, consider an ad in our classified section. The editor reserves the right to edit or refuse to run any submission.
