Proud Displays

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• Added: Sometimes we think about leaving Kitchener for Waterloo, the trendier, younger, richer, prettier, more prosperous, more dentally-attended sibling of Kitchener. leapfish sent me a link to this house today, not because it's anything great, but because of the description. Highly recommended reading.
• I've seen more people without sleeves on their shirts in Kitchener than in any other city in which I've lived.
• Added: Kitchener used to be called Berlin.
• I've seen more swastikas and iron crosses tattooed on sleeveless and shirtless individuals in Kitchener than in any other city in which I've lived.
• A boring grey sedan drove by me the other day with a 50ish man driving. It was decorated with those hubcaps that spin independently from the wheel rim, typically meaning they actually stay still. They were Iron Crosses.
• There's a town in northern Ontario called Swastika*.

Sometimes I feel so disconnected from other people around me and I just can't make that leap to understand where they're coming from. As a trainer I feel bad when I can't empathize with my students.

I definitely don't feel bad about it when it's some Nazi sympathizers.

* Swastika, Ontario was not named in honour of Nazism, it's older.