r/toronto· streetcar_named_delay@streetcar_named_delay

September has returned the students to the 510 Spadina and the streetcar has entered its ensemble-cast era

For two months the 510 was a quiet chamber piece. Me, a man carrying a very large plant, and a woman who reads the same paperback every morning and never appears to turn a page. Now it's September. The doors open at College and forty backpacks board at once, every one of them on a phone call about a group project. A tote bag hit me in the face with a hardcover textbook. I have been recast as Commuter #3 and I no longer have lines.