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Re: The best $4 ever spent

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Post by canucker2016 »

canucker2016 wrote: post #98
criddell wrote: post #39

When I was five or six, my grandmother took me and my siblings on a train to Toronto (maybe a two hour trip) around Christmas to walk down some street (no idea which) and look at the Christmas displays in shop windows. It was all magic to me. I don't think we ever bought anything although she must have fed us something. It's one of my favorite memories and I still love trains. I'm hoping to ride Via from Toronto to V…

If the trip happened in the past 30 years, then your family probably walked along the south side of Queen St, just west of Yonge St. at the Hudson's Bay flagship store in Toronto. as an example, see https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/ylxwxt/hudsons_bay... just search for "Toronto Hudson's Bay Christmas Display Window" Before then, Eaton's dept. store in the Eaton Centre, just north of the Queen St. Hudson's Ba…

Google Maps Street view link of the store windows that house the Christmas displays leading up to Dec. 25 every year.

see https://maps.app.goo.gl/ho5aM9sjaPo27bYB6

Re: The best $4 ever spent

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Post by timzaman »

Premise of article is wrong. Kids do get excited about the same things as adults; novel and intriguing things within reach. These things just aren't exciting any more to adults. That's the only difference. An adult that's never been on a train, but never could, or was never allowed, will find it exciting too.

Re: The best $4 ever spent

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Post by crtified »

I didn't have that particular kind of idyllic childhood, that fairytale cherished time of having engaged, caring parents whose primary goal was to spend quality time with me. But with that came a different kind of freedom, different experiences.

For example, on one occasion my mother and stepfather wanted a week together, and obtained it by taking the three of us for a full week stay at a big amusement park during a school holidays... and oh you better believe that I have an extremely joyous set of memories of spending all day every day unsupervised in a happy dream of endless roller coasters and water slides!

Re: The best $4 ever spent

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Post by toast0 »

docdeek wrote: post #9

When I was a kid in suburban Australia my parents would organize a semi-annual ‘bus-train-ferry’ trip. It was a school holiday tradition where - in hindsight - we’d do the sort of daily commute that thousands of working adults would do every morning…except for a kid the magic of a bus to a train station, a train into the city, and then a ferry across the river was just great fun. A day ticket for a family back in the…

I took a train to work for a few years, and a ferry to work for about a year later. Even if it's regular it's still magical.

A couple of times I took the bus to the ferry, walked to the light rail, took that to the airport, flew, then picked up a rental car and drove in to work. Maybe the airport train too. Pretty much all the modes but a bike.

Re: The best $4 ever spent

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Post by brailsafe »

brailsafe wrote: post #93
DowagerDave wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For our Disney(land) trip, we stayed at a motel ~ 1.5 miles from the park (Canadian walking distance) and the thing my kids LOVED was we walked by a 7-11 every day and I would buy them a slurpee on the morning walk to the gates. Probably $20 for the week (and likely not much worse for you than a typical vacation breakfast). The "make your own waffle" station at the included breakfast was also a huge hit. The park and…

Must be from Winnipeg or something

(Winnipegers have a culture of slurpees)

Re: The best $4 ever spent

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Post by golemiprague »

Japan is genius when it comes to implementing those simple things that kids like. Like putting little shallow water areas in playground, all kind of mechanical things and variety of playgrounds from all types dotted all over the city, some would considered to be "dangerous" in the west. There are ones where kids can even light fires and play with working tools or cook. There are theme parks all based on various playgrounds without any electricity driven rides. You can also stamp a special kids book in train stations and even places where kids can act play in various adult "jobs" like cashier or mechanic or whatever. My kids had so much fun at those places, much more than in Disney, although they enjoyed it too.

Re: The best $4 ever spent

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Post by diego_sandoval »

timzaman wrote: post #102

Premise of article is wrong. Kids do get excited about the same things as adults; novel and intriguing things within reach. These things just aren't exciting any more to adults. That's the only difference. An adult that's never been on a train, but never could, or was never allowed, will find it exciting too.

I'm still excited about flying on a plane even though I've done it dozens of times.

Re: The best $4 ever spent

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Post by teo_zero »

imp0cat wrote: post #86
throw0101d wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I take the subway into work, I am in the physical presence of other people, but am I really with them?

Depends. Do you smell them?

> Do you smell them?

It's irrelevant: you can smell many of them even after they have left the wagon or room, still you're not with them.

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