Transit Demographics

Any one Calgary C-Train typically has the following:

1. One elderly couple who presumably no longer drive.


2. One group of people speaking a language you do not understand nor do you have any idea what language it is.


3. One group of people speaking a language that you can either get a few words out of or you can at least identify.


4. One person deep in sleep. (If you're lucky they're not drooling.)


5. Two people reading some sort of newspaper (whether this be a man trying to look intelligent but failing because he is reading the Calgary Sun, or a business man who wishes to look important).


6. One person philosophizing. (Example: debating the poetic aptitude of Dr. Seuss like he is not a children's author.)


7. One person or group who really has no idea what he/she/they is/are talking about. (Example: business people in the oil industry remarking on how sticky and tar-like the tar sands are: apparently it is like tar; who would have thought?)


8. One young family complete with stroller. This family is either ecologically friendly or presumably low income without a car. Or their kids really like the train.


9. One person reading the weirdest book you have ever seen. (Types of books range from analyzing nightmares from a new angle to testimonials)


10. One person discussing with demographic #9 what he/she is reading. This discussion usually contains some talk about how they came upon the new age religion and/or nightmare book: fell out of the shelf "choosing them".


11. One group of hipsters. Those are the 12-15 year old boys in skinny jeans, plaid shirts, and with longboards. They are too young to drive and remark on how intelligent they are if they use a word longer than 3 syllables.


12. The overly friendly person. Sometimes they are one in the same with demographic #10. But at other times they ask if they can add you to his/her birthday list or tell you that on one's nineteenth birthday you have reached 7000 days old (other my math is wrong or his math was wrong). At times you are able to avoid eye contact with said person thus preventing interaction. 


13. Me 

*The post you have just read may involve some stereotyping and over-generalizations*
*These are the demographics for mid-day. As one would presume, at night young family and elderly numbers decrease and we see a rise in groups that claim to be in a band, groups that appear to be in a gang, and that one overly drunk person*