Minor bit of family history

I was shopping for gifts for loot bags for my daughter's birthday party when I discovered a number of "Chinese Jump Ropes" (which I picked up, as they were on sale). However, it triggered a couple of memories:

• When I was young, this was called "jumpsies" and was played with linked elastic bands.



• There's a family tradition about its introduction to Canada (and not from China, but from Korea): my aunt Margaret had introduced it.

So I googled around, and sure enough, I came up with a confirming citation:

Edith Fouke, Sally Go Round the Sun, p.152:

YOKI AND THE KAISER. This rhyme, in many forms, is very popular with Canadian children. It is used for a variation on skipping in which a long piece of elastic is raised and lowered while the player goes over or under it. It is said to be a Korean children’s game that the children of missionaries brought back to Canada. Margaret Burbidge, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Burbidge, came home to Toronto from Korea in 1939 and introduced the game into Humewood public school.

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Poor TTC ... sort of.

They make themselves look petulant by asking customers not to use their cameras to record drivers texting (ignoring the obvious facts that photos make very helpful evidence and that their disciplinary procedures are so murky that they never seem to respond to complaints which aren't high profile).

And then...

1. They have a meeting which Steve Munro characterizes as Has TTC Management Highjacked “Customer Service”?,
2. They have a customer capture a video of seven buses arriving in three minutes on the Dufferin route.
3. Then they have a criminal charge levied against an employee for assaulting a customer.

Can anything actually go worse for them?