Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Olympic Stadium's grumpy tour guide


I recently visited the Olympic Stadium and got Kevin "Don't Take My Picture" as a guide (that's him doing the perp-walk-head-turn pose) When I arrived he was planted idly at a counter, elbows firmly on his Journal de Montreal. He bellowed at me like a drill sergeant "puis je vous aider!?" He didn't seem thrilled when I didn't dash to him. It went downhill from there. Maybe it was just a bad day for ol' Kev, but during my visit his smile was firmly upside down. He explained that the bad roof has prevented the Olympic Stadium from hosting events during the winter months. They've got a lawsuit against a Miluwakee company to fix it but until it's redone it's empty all winter. He didn't seem happy about this either. Then he explained how there will never ever be baseball there again, which seemed a little speculative. He pointed me to the tower, where I was unaccompanied, I'll post more details about that later.

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