I have a guy like this in my building. First time we spoke he bounced up to me and said Robbie was the best mayor ever. This is a TCHC building and the guy's been on some kind of disability for years and years and he waits in the lobby for his grandkids to be dropped off by the school bus. I said "So what's so great about Rob Ford?" I got the standard No Tax Increase BS, so I said, so he saved you $60 in the car registration "tax" and he mumbled something like "Well, no", then I asked him how much property tax he'd saved, and I got a blank stare. Then I said, but you'll save tons when you buy a half-Million $ condo when Rob eliminates the Land Transfer Tax, right? I asked him if he used the TTC, and when he said he did I pointed out that the fare increase was the money he'd "saved" in car registration fees, and he started yelling at me that Rob Ford owned the building and if I wasn't careful the Mayor would kick me out! He could even sell the building! I said I'd like to see him try.
A couple of month later, after the booze and crack stuff had come out we met in the elevator. All the way down to the lobby he blabbered on at me. When the door opened and I saw a few of his buddies standing around waiting for the mail. I turned on the guy and said, okay you like Rob Ford so much would you want him for a brother in law, or a son in law? Seeing him you'd have thought I slapped him. He took a minute and blubbered, NO!, well, no of course not. I said to him that's ok, "and just so you know, I haven't gotten my eviction notice yet."
Memory Lane : When RF was first elected he fired the TCHC Board and Senior staff and put his buddy Case Ootes in charge to "clean up the mess". First thing he did was install an anonymous Snitch Line. I'll bet my Ford fanboy neighbor "snitched" on me, and when I wasn't evicted he probably called Robbie directly to complain that TCHC wasn't doing its job!
It takes all kinds. I hope your wife isn't too weirded out by her co-worker, Jimmi. (This is the building Rae Deeton claimed Rob bought crack from.)
