How a Waitress Can Earn a 1-Cent Tip

This story is about a harsh lesson learned for one Toronto waitress. A long time ago, maybe back in the early or mid-nineties, some members of my family were visiting Toronto (they don’t live here) to see a Blue Jays ball game.  They stayed at the Skydome Hotel.  That’s right – this story happened before […]

Black’s Photography is Ace!

Before I returned to Japan for the second time this last November,  I shopped around for a new digital camera, since the last time I was there I broke my other one.  It was July 4th 2008, Canada Day, and I was in Kyoto with a few foreign teachers, including my Canadian buddy Andrew.  We […]

Worse Than a Fly in Your Soup?

The other night I took my wife out for dinner at a restaurant that currently has 3 names (which is quite confusing – I guess they are merging or something) just south of Yonge and St. Clair.  We had a beer and a meal and all in all the service and food were good enough.  […]

Mike Does Right at Leon’s

My current couch is falling apart, piece by piece.  It’s an Ikea futon couch and it was never meant to be my main couch but for some unknown reason (laziness) it has been in the living room for far too long, breaking down both itself and anyone’s back who sits on it for too long.  […]

Christina’s on the Danforth

This isn’t recent, but I was sitting here thinking of some of my favourite restaurants to go to because of excellent customer service, and I thought I might start to mention them one at a time, in random order, here on the blog. For many years I used to live just off the Danforth.  (Man […]

TTC – Toronto Transit Commission

Oh yes…one of the favourite topics of the average Torontonian…especially those of us that frequently use the transit system.  I get the feeling that there will be many posts on this topic, but to start off I would like to say that I have been living in Toronto more or less since 1996, and I […]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

On behalf of 3V Communications I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a fantastic New Year celebration to ring in 2011. All the best! Your Coach, Ric Phillips

Your Word is Your Bond

It is not always easy or even possible to follow this axiom, but if you can, you will be greatly respected by others, and you will feel good about yourself. Recently I used this phrase in a customer service email to my bank, when I was chastising a rep for not calling me back when […]

Florida woman claims ‘Merry Christmas’ greeting got her fired

Hello all, I should not be working on Christmas eve, rather enjoying my drink and relaxing. This article caught my eye, and I had to pass it on. I could spew a lot of my opinion here, but for now all I want to say is that this article is ‘interesting’ and ‘disturbing’ at the […]