Clearly not a tour guide

I was recently asked by a friend about what sights and such to show someone who has never been to Toronto before.

Now, you might think that having basically lived here all my life (barring some brief forrays to Kingston), I might be brimming with information... turns out my response of "Uhhh...iunno...?" was somewhat disappointing.

Sadly, this was not the first time something like this has happened to me. In first year, my friend Melissa stayed with me in TO for a few days during reading week, as her parents were away, and thus gave her no reason to bother going all the way home to Leamington (the Tomato Capital of Canada!). Anyway, when she was here I had practically no idea what to do with her. She had seen the CN Tower, and after that? I was stumped. I ended up taking her to see the giant LCBO at Weston Road and the 401 (the thing is the size of a damned Wal-Mart!), and then past my high school on the way to visit Neil. When I get there, mostly to make conversation, Neil asks what we've been out to see. When Melis tells him about the LCBO and Richview, I was relieved to hear that Neil's response was: "Yeah, after that, I'd be stumped, too..."

We are not the poster boys for the Toronto Board of Tourism, to say the least.