Spinsters

Spinster was a very loaded word when I was young. It was something you really wanted to avoid becoming. There were many interesting stories about spinsters that were often repeated in our family. The one that would have us rolling on the floor with laughter concerned the arrival of the first car dealership in Pembroke in the 1920's.

At the time, you did not need a licence to drive a car. If you bought a car you could drive off the lot after just a few minutes of instruction. There were two spinster sisters who lived together in a house they inherited from their father along with a substantial amount of money. One day shortly after the dealership opened, they decided to purchase their first car.

While they were driving home down the main street, they spotted one of the few eligible batchelors in town. They began waving and beeping the horn to get his attention. As he turned around to look at them, they drove directly into him at full speed and pinned him against a brick wall.

Moral of the story - don't kill your chances!

Vancouver on Saturday, March 7, 2009

This is the West End.

This is Westwood Plateau (technically part of greater Vancouver)

Change of elevation..... about 1,000 feet.