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Hell may be Sartrean (other people) or Ahrendtian (banal), but whatever your personal conception of it may be, save a little thought for the small town of Wawa, situated somewhere between Winnipeg and Toronto, and basically the last gas stop for an obscene amount of kilometres heading east. This fact combined with a gas station that refuses to offer 24 hour service means that Wawa has a thriving little hotel industry, which gives me cause to speculate that the owner of the gas station might be the mayor and the judge and the sherrif and whatever else, just like Dan Aykroyd's creepy character in "Nothing But Trouble." (Which, incidentally, also featured a very young Tupac as a member of Digital Underground (you know, from "Humpty Hump" and "Sex Packets").

There are also two giant geese statues in the town. Deliverance jokes at the expense of rural folk are more than a little passe, but this is one of a very few places that I've been to (and I grew up in northern BC, for Christ's sake) that actually gives me a foreboding sense of doom and creepiness.

I've heard tales about Wawa being a major curse for hitch-hikers, who are dropped off and stranded there at an above-average rate.

Shayne Wardrop is said to host a spectacular curling bonspiel every spring, though.

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ontario , many small towns are wretched and cursed places that carry the dark spirit of the middle ages threaten the advancement of humanity , places never to spend more than five minutes in , small towns , curling