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rfmcdonaldMeeting and getting to know random people that you meet in different locales can be quite fun. For instance, there was recently a cute news item in the local dailies both free and otherwise, notification that one of Toronto's very own subway stations--Bathurst, to be precise--was deemed the third most romantic transit stop in all Canada and the most romantic in Toronto. The Bathurst TTC station, it seems, is a great place for people who otherwise would never know each other to meet.
People make most of their (in person) friends within their social networks: you know someone who knows someone who knows someone, etc. Sometimes the first generation of friend is known from direct physical interactions at school or at work, sometimes initially more remotely via one online social network or another. Regardless, these friendships exist as a consequence of a network, pathways, lineages; they're the sort of things that can be expected.
And sometimes people meet up and get to know each other without any previous contact at all. I've gotten to befriend and date a couple of people being or doing something on the street or in a coffee shop or elsewhere that seemed noteworthy (and likewise been befriended and dated). One of my oldest friends is a guy who saw my blog's title on a Toronto listing and decided to say hi; great things have come from that over the years.
You? What sorts of people in your life have you met at random? Where did you meet them?
Discuss.
Maybe it’s the seductive aroma of freshly baked goods.
“It’s busy, like a mini Dundas Square, and the same people come through. It’s a meeting place.” says Ramzi Hassan, who works at Bakery on the Go.
Would he consider a romantic spot? “Indeed.”
Bathurst station’s No. 3 romantic ranking trails behind Montreal, which officially has the most crush-worthy commuters in Canada. Its Saint-Laurent station was No. 2.
By “officially,” we mean: Craigslist researchers have decreed Montreal’s Lionel-Groulx Metro station the most romantic transit stop in the country.
[. . .]
Bathurst station pulled in only a 4.95 on the TRIST (train romance index score total) scale compared to 8.95 for Lionel-Groulx.
The survey, “Love on the Line,” analyses a year’s worth of “Missed Connections” personal ads on Craigslist that mention individual subway, Metro or rapid transit stations in Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto. TRIST scale is tallied by dividing the number of Missed Connections mentions at each station or line by the daily ridership and then multiplying by 10,000 and rounding to two decimal places.
[. . .]
It is possible to find love on the line, says Sandeep Kohli, waiting for the subway at Bathurst. “I met someone at Davisville station a long time ago so I know it’s possible.”
As far as Bathurst station goes, “I think it’s pretty centrally located so there is a lot more opportunity for people to connect if they want to. . . . It just has to be the right moment at the right time.”
People make most of their (in person) friends within their social networks: you know someone who knows someone who knows someone, etc. Sometimes the first generation of friend is known from direct physical interactions at school or at work, sometimes initially more remotely via one online social network or another. Regardless, these friendships exist as a consequence of a network, pathways, lineages; they're the sort of things that can be expected.
And sometimes people meet up and get to know each other without any previous contact at all. I've gotten to befriend and date a couple of people being or doing something on the street or in a coffee shop or elsewhere that seemed noteworthy (and likewise been befriended and dated). One of my oldest friends is a guy who saw my blog's title on a Toronto listing and decided to say hi; great things have come from that over the years.
You? What sorts of people in your life have you met at random? Where did you meet them?
Discuss.
