Since returning to Winnipeg I've been dismayed at the number of Cash Now / X-Money-X / Poor4Life loan sharks that have set up on Portage Ave to ply their wares, which in the end are primarily dearth and want. It's a 10 minute bus ride downtown and as if watching students get off at the U of W stop to begin their long day of getting their Ward Churchill on isn't chilling enough, I'm compelled to fix my gaze upon these places as they spread what could only be described as the opposite of Christmas cheer.
I recall reading a sign that said something to the effect of ...Because life doesn't wait until payday. This is supposed to bring a smile to your face: thinking perhaps of the individual who is one day away from payday and has decides to take a spontaneous trip to Vegas with his bestest of buds. Unfortunately the people who stumble into a Payday Loans on Portage Ave at 3am on a Tuesday aren't going to Vegas with college buds, they're probably trying to make their way to a Hell's Angels crack house in Garden City. And although I don't advocate property damage to make ones opinion heard (for that I would recommend a poorly colored strangly named web style log), a few choice words taped to the side of about 11 or so bricks sounds pretty good.
Haza!
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