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Commuting by Numbers: Southern Ontario edition

To my absolute delight, MC of the excellent pop culture blog Culture Kills... wait, I mean cutlery has weighed in on the Commuting by Numbers experience, with his own set of 23 statistical categories. Thanks Matt!

This edition comes from an not-precisely-disclosed location in Southern Ontario. It's not only amusing, but gives me some ideas for categories I'll count next for Toronto. Enjoy!

Commuter: Matthew Caverhill
Location: Southern Ontario
Commuting time: 1-1.25 hours
Route: Travelling the Riverside blues by foot and down and about the thoroughfares of the next town by bus.

Graffiti: 38 locations
Tim Hortons: 10
Ethnic Grocery/Bakeries: 11
Pizza places: 17
Coffee shops: 12
Apartment Buildings: 38
Parks: 15
Panhandlers: 6
Buses: 18
Car dealers: 4
Gas stations: 7
Traffic lights: 18
Bars: 23
Of those, I’ve been in: 8
Strip clubs: 5
Of those, I've been in: unspecified
Casinos: 1
Teenaged Girls dressed inappropriately… for the weather: 5
Churches: 4
Of those, I’ve been in: 0
Hospitals: 2
Bookstores: 5
Recalcitrant Geese that don’t fly south for the winter: about a hundred
Numbered Streets: 0

As always, I'd love to hear about your commute, wherever it may be. Count something - anything - and let me know about it!