I do a lot of public speaking and let me tell you how much I appreciate having an audience. All of what I’m about to tell you really happened.

Last fall, I was booked to do a big interior design show in Toronto (where I live), which shall remain nameless, because I don’t want to embarrass anyone.

However, the delegates were interested in design products, not economic forecasts. I was booked into the wrong “gig”. It was a big trade show, with a few seminars mixed in.

I got up early in the morning and drove downtown because I hate rush hour traffic.

I should have known better, but I got pulled over by the police where River Road meets King Street, for rolling through a stop sign.

I’m getting a little older and I don’t really like being stopped by the cops. Furthermore, there’s drag racing on Highway 404 after midnight, but I’m the one who gets caught for a vehicular transgression.

As a public service, I pointed this out to the officer and added that I thought this was just a bogus set-up to extract money from me. I was feeling pretty good to this point, but then I couldn’t produce my car insurance.

I started to get frazzled and my stress level started to rise. I was thinking, “I’ve got to give a speech this morning and, instead, I’m going to get busted by the police for my attitude.”

Anyway, I got two summonses and two hundred dollars’ worth of fines and started on my way again.

What I’ve described so far might be called the highlight of my day. To find out what happens next, tune in tomorrow.

Alex Carrick

Find Canadian construction-related economic articles in Canadian Construction Market News and in the Economic Outlook section of Daily Commercial News.

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