Right. So perhaps this is small potatoe’s to some of our fellow Metblog Cities such as New York city, Bangkok, or London, just to name a few… but Toronto IS big enough to experience rush hour traffic and eager-beaver, road-raging, hogs trying to zip through the city five days a week.

It’s not that I mind rush hour… and perhaps I’m just more sensitive about these sorts of things as I get older… but the number of times I’ve been honked at or even called a biaaatch just makes me sad.

Especially since I was the one, all those times, who was actually following the traffic laws.

My parents-in-law are always commenting about the ‘big city’ drivers (i.e. Torontorians… much of our conversation seems to stem from the subject matter, “lets see what else we can compare Thunder Bay to you Toronto people,” like we’re a different species to the rest of the human race). I’ve always been lead to believe that being in the big city, or BIGGER city in our case, one should expect such interesting road-like mannerisms such as, oh… getting the extended middle finger from time to time, for example.

Yet, after speaking with my husband’s cousin, who is now currently living in Toronto, she claims that people in Toronto are much more patient and much more generous on the road. Apparently, unlike those in her smaller city, Torontorians have just become accustomed to having to wait it out.

To tell you the truth, this is all news to me. It makes me wonder which is the truth and which is a myth.

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1. Idiot of the Day
2. Randomness from Toronto No. 1
3. Get a Headset!
4. Drunk Driving,…No Problem!
5. …signals Green for TTC