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Leftover GYROS? No problem I think we’ve all experienced language
barriers when ordering take out. You know: different, hard-to-understand accents. Sometimes it can be really funny. Sometimes it can be a potential disaster. Ottawa mortgage broker Nick
RANDALL MOORE
Bachusky was having some friends over to watch Game of Thrones. “You have to try Greco’s lamb-and-
beef gyros,” he tells his friends. So he phones in an advance order of 9 gyros. “Was that 90?” asked the man at the
other end of the line. “No sir,” answered Nick. “Nine.” “Ninety. Okay. Are you sure?” “No. NINE.” “Okay, sir,” the man replied. So Oman Rahmani, with the help of
his wife and teenage daughter, got to work preparing 90 lamb-and-beef gyros. A few hours later, Nick arrived to pick
up his nine gyros. Well, you can
just imagine. The exhausted gyro-maker was beside himself. Eighty-one left-over gyros! A loss of $400! For a small business owner, that’s a lot of money. Nick felt bad for his
favourite gyro-maker
and offered to help sell the remaining 81 gyros by the end of the day. Oh, the power of social media! “Gyro firesale at Greco’s! Please help
this small restaurant out,” read the post on Reddit. Customers started pouring into the little restaurant, and in less than three hours all the remaining gyros were gobbled up. As for Omid Rahmani, he’s now
letting his daughter take most of the orders.
* Small business. The engine that
drives our economy. We keep hearing that. Then why are small business owners
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treated like second-class citizens? Why can’t we just once give them a break? Now it’s ballooning energy costs. Do we
really want small businesses shutting down because their hydro bills are out of reach? One example: Saslove’s Meat Market.
They have two shops and a warehouse. In 2003 their hydro bill was $20,300. Ten years later it’s $50,500 for pretty much the same usage. And energy costs are expected to
skyrocket about 40 per cent within five years.
* Are politicians the dumbest people in the
world? You have to wonder. Pitbulls. (No, I’m not going down that
road again) But the politicians who banned the breed. They don’t even know what a pitbull is. Which is why I suppose they don’t enforce the pitbull ban. I mean, how can you enforce something when you can’t identify what it is you’re supposed to be enforcing? It’s beyond stupid. Like the game of tit for tat being
played by the city and VIA Rail over those Fallowfield rail crossings. UnFREAKINbelievable! We have drones that can shoot the wings off a fly at 800 yards and we don’t know how to fix a few signal lights. Talk about clueless. Hey, how about not needing I.D. to vote? All you need is for the person you have
with you to verify that you are indeed the person you say you are. They call it vouching. I call it stupid. Then there’s OC Transpo and the light
rail line being built. They’re going to need transit stations, right? And public washrooms at those stations. NOPE. No public washrooms at any of the LRT stations. Something about not being able to keep them safe. Imagine. A huge outfit like the city, like
OC Transpo, and they can’t look after a lousy washroom! Ridiculous. It really is.
You can hear Randall every morning on CHEZ 106.
www.bounder.ca
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