Happy New Year!! And a "Suspicious Incident."

I had the most adrenaline-inducing trip home tonight, between 2-3am.

Actually, before I get to that... Happy New Year! Auld Lang Syne and all that. Bring it on, 2011. Also, I had a really nice time at the dinner party put on by a friend and her family. Cheers!

Back to the scheduled programming. I hitched a ride in the Hall family taxi to the metro, and had approximately 15 stops on the subway (Thank you, TTC, for free and almost-all-night subway rides on Dec 31/Jan 1!). That part was easy. Uneventful, aside from the leftover, pungent evidence that some people had been having too much fun tonight. Yuck.

Then I got off the metro, and the short version is, had to deal with a strange, totally dodgy man following me home. I did the whole cross-the-street thing, the "back off" thing, but didn't get very far before I decided to turn around and walk back to the subway station, where the supervisor had someone else at the TTC call the cops. Then I waited.

Then the third-party TTC person arrived, and the cops almost immediately afterwards. And the very kind police officers gave me an escort all the way to my house. Actually, that makes the first time I've ever been in a police car. A very heartfelt thanks to the Toronto Police Service.

There's nothing like actually experiencing something like this to drive home the importance of knowing how to be safe. Most importantly, finding a place with bright lights, lots of people, and someone who can help.