TO THE ATTENTION OF THE UNDERSIGNED, i.e., myself and TO WHOM IT MAY INTEREST (read at own risk, reading level: mature grown ups only)
January 14 of 2026: bought my first meal of the day for dine in at a restaurant in downtown, paid in full amount by cash only less than dollar chain by pc card. slept little for an hour in the afternoon, in the evening went to down town to buy a specific item was not available at a store in Rideau centre. 06h00-20h00
January 13 of 2026: stepped out of my apartment around 21h00 for a short walk, it was rainy and windy night.
January 12 of 2026: bought my lunch from a sushi shop at St-Laurent mall, this morning I called the scotiabank visa card complaint handling (shutup duty insert during my post) department to withdraw the request I submitted past Saturday Jan 10 pertaining to EDO fast food 548 (double payment issue). Requested/promised email was not received yet, however it was withdrawn under the same number.
My financial records will show two payments for one meal at the same time, same place, same merchant. it was not worth to claim a less than 20 dollars payment reversal from the merchant. Two payments will not mean “two can dine” promotion. It was more like “one can dine” for the “price of two meals”.
January 12 of 2026: tap machines on few buses were not able to read my presto fare card so I visited the OC transo customer service centre at Rideau centre to find out the reason for it, clerk at the windows asked me if the presto card was registered or not to print something not known to me. I informed him that it was not mandatory to register the presto card on the web. I have come across similar situation several times before as well, almost like a periodically occurring feature that fare tap machines stop reading my presto cards, instead of showing a green light, show a big red popup message on the fare box with a scary sound, may be due to faulty and low quality technology or something else, whivh my be due to the human intervention, perhaps due to frequent staff changes, whenever there are new teams recruited in this city, they start repeating the same old syllabus on my monthly pass. I check my presto card at the machine or take my monthly pass on presto card to the service centre for check up. This started happening recently since 2023 because of the presto card for fare payment, in the past before 2011 OC transpo used different system for monthly passes and tickets which was temper proof and could not be used to block the pass and there were no tap machines to breakdown (shutup text insertion) while using Public transit, In the begining I used my own my car.
Made few stops before returning to my place. Visited BMO downtown, ATM/ABM machine was hiding balance on the mini statements due to some problem. Spoke to a human teller at the counter. Minto place, bridgehead for coffee and balls of dates.
January 11 of 2026: stepped out early morning, ate my quick breakfast begote goingout, bought a beveragevst a Tim Hortons, came back via downtown Rideau before lunch time.
January 11 of 2026: I do not use a satellite dish TV antenna, probably someone else who lived in apartment 307 used a Satellite dish antenna. I use digital antenna with my old TV, abd still works.
January 10 of 2026: second time this month (within a period of ten days) fire crew was seen in the building, once in the morning and now at night around 21h45, there was some kind of flooding situation this time in the building on the lobby floor and one floor up.
January 10 of 2026: in retail shops transaction receipts show the proof of payment some show details but EDO 548 receipt does not show all the details but it shows that successful payment was made by a card. When I mentioned to the cashier that they took two payments for one meal, the boy asked me to show the payment on my phone app, which was very unusual, cashiers should look at the receipt or the register not at the customers phone. It has been about 8 hours since the two payments for one meal, and it has not been corrected yet on the credit card by 21h10, one payment was made using a prepaid mastercard (electronic cash out of my reserves on the card) and other payment was made using a Scotiabank credit card. I called the credit card company to cancel the transaction, I was told it will take one month to get the money back (i.e. to cancel the transaction) from the merchant. It was very easy for such people to mess up people’s finances (and feel great about it for no reason, I wonder what was the reason for such animosity, obviously they are rewarded by someone for such techniques to create problems for customers/people). If they have grudge or animosity against certain people, they should tell them that they can not provide services or products to them instead of creating such problems which takes long time to fix. In the early years in Canada a disputed transactions used to be cancelled immediately without hassle, regardless of the amount. This was a very small amount transaction $20.00 rounded up, and one month to get it fixed, unimaginable, such services which were considered conveinence and advancement and quality of life have gone down, because of such intelligent work forces. Surprisingly EDO fast food does not exist in Japan, perhaps some one was trying to use Canadian presence to develope a brand and than start business in Japan. As it was found on Google search. But their ethics and customer service standards are not at par with international/local standards.
January 10 of 2026: at one restaurant fast food shop (EDO #548 in Bells Corners near East Side Mario’s adjacent Starbucks) around 12h45 when I used my PC financial card to make the payment, cashier announced loudly with excitement “transaction did not go through”, than he asked me to use another card and system printed receipt after I used second card. During this event one customer ran out of the fast food shop sitting in the corner at a double table. When I checked my account, PC card was showing a completed transaction (not even a pending transaction), which made like double payment due a single transaction. I asked the staff to check the reason for it, I was told since two card were used on one transaction, one of the transactions will be reversed by itself. They use to make such announcements about transactions not going through around cash registers in 2006 at grocery stores in Glebe area. They are always full of excitement when they make this type of announcement “did not go through” instead trying to figure why did not go through and tell the customer to use another card. Perhaps someone prepares them ahead of time for such an exciting event.
This was a swindling and conning behaviour in a food shop, if the business does not refund the double payment taken from me for the same transaction will reflect on the business practices in this area. How they deplete people of their money, it happens on other transactions as well such as email hosting, web hosting, etc. I will skip my meal and will reduce dinning out. Such tricks and crooks techniques will not make them wise and intelligent. Another interpretation of refunding the second payment will be that they provided free food to a customer or the second customer did not pay, either “Khalid” or “Mahmood” by the incomplete names, but when they use complete name it will be only one person.
When a transaction fails it prints a receipt for transaction failure. This fast food shop did not print a transaction failure receipt. This was not a transaction failure, it was done with some other precautionary planned objectives, 1. to spread a negative word loudly, 2. double payment for a single transaction by the first name and by the last name to show to different individuals dine in even though I did not say me and my shadow because this place is a fast food shop not a restaurant. So, when one transaction gets reversed then they will decide what to say, who bought food “khalid” or “mahmood”. They should be required by law to say full name of customer, by the full name person who bought food is “KHALIDMAHMOOD “. Many grocery stores have several times bigger better hot meals section than some of these fast food shops, and better quality and better price.
January 09 of 2026: a rainy day in Ottawa with milder temperatures, which was causing the snow thawing and creating small puddles, not suitable to be outdoors.
January 08 of 2026: a laundry hamper was seen left outside my apartment door around 17h45, later on was removed by some one. I do not own and do not use any hampers in my apartment.
January 08 of 2026: visited a building where Robert Half (RH) staffing agency was located in DT Ottawa, I was referred to Robert Half company nearly 19 years ago for some employment opportunities. At that time there were no security desks in these buildings. It appears to me that these security desks were added to these buildings to enhance the security during the period after 2011, but why, perhaps to create non-technical employment in abundance.. was it not safer before 2011 or did it become safer after 2011 due to security desks in all these building in DTO. Security desk and information desk are different type of roles. Role of information desk was replaced by the automated kiosk like intercom to contact the companies from the lobby.
January 08 of 2026: I wonder who was calling me from number +16134136126 around 10h00 and why, I was busy at a Staples store with an important matter, when I returned the call no one answered around 10h30
January 08 of 2026: A firetruck and an ambulance was seen outside the building in the driveway around 0640. Several buses were seen heading towards the St-Laurent Station and stopping at McDonald’s during the past 20 minutes but no in-service bus was seen coming from St-Laurent station heading towards Elmvale station.
January 07 of 2026: 06h30 – 15h30, remained indoors for the rest of the day.
January 07 of 2026: a rowdy crowdy stampede short bus. OC transpo should train the bus drivers not to allow more than a certain number of passengers on short buses and ask for additional buses instead of loading the bus over capacity, i.e. observe capacity rules, for the safety of the passengers. Winter clothing further reduces the space on the vehicles and makes it congested.
January 07 of 2026: bought coffee with chocolate mousse for breakfast at a restaurant in Kanata, contacted CRA and MSCA for some clarification and records etc.
January 06 of 2026: bought a pot of tea with fruits at a restaurant near TD place, made two payment to master card at a bank branch, H&R block refused my request for “adavance filing” of my 2025 without submitting to CRA untill they declare open. Since I have no other income other than the OAS/OW-CPP, it should be possible to prepare the tax file based on the previous T4 + estimation for the 2025.
Bought my lunch for dine-in at Colonade restaurant, paid exact amount by debit card.
January 05 of 2026: snowy removal operation was witnessed in the city this evening.
January 05 of 2026: just got back around 16h20, this was a snowy day in Ottawa, causing flow of traffic slow down. Lot of accumulation of snow on the roads and on the side walk. Visited the Woodridge crescent area/BayShore mall area where once I lived and shopped with my three offsprings/babies and their mother, in the year 1998. Bought few items from buck or two plus store for a total of ten dollars so there was no small change involved/not collected. These were only consumables, nothing valuable.
January 04 of 2026: when cloud storage came into existence initially, yahoo and few other companies were promoting it by offering 1TB of free storage (which was almost like unlimited storage for email etc). offer has been revised to 20GB which was still a huge amount of storage space for personal usage.
January 03 of 2026: Marriott Ottawa downtown has no happy hour on Saturdays, bought fries with coffee for dine-in, settled the bill with cash payment.
January 03 of 2026: went outdoors for a quick 15 minutes short walk to the Haig Drive and back to apartment and used the men’s washroom in corridor “A” before exiting through the garden/gardening side “A” door.
January 02 of 2026: coffee at Starbucks downtown, came back home via walkley, Heron Rd, St-Laurent, Gloucester Centre. Entrance to Walmart adjacent to Dollarama was not seen there anymore, rather a wall was seen instead. Route 24 was running with a signage of “Montreal” which meant “Montreal Rd”, instead of Shafford or Blackburn Hamlet or Beacon Hill.
January 01 of 2026: bought my lunch for dine-in at “craft beer” restaurant. Took care of few other chores and back to my apartment. Few people were seen sitting in the lobby and chatting when I entered the lobby from outdoors.
January 01 of 2026: stepped out of the building few minutes past midnight but because of the snow activity outdoors came back to my apartment and decided not to proceed to Byward market to see the decoration lighting etc, due to snow, transit on newyear eve might have been at a reduced level, ie. to avoid longer wait times.
Canada in New year 2026: But my physical location “Ottawa Ontario Canada K1G3P2” was in January 2026 after 90 minutes.
