Now I feel better..... (857 hits)
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Submitted by canadia (View user info) at 2005-04-20 14:43:44 EDT
** ding dong** Doors closing.
I run down the stairs, hoping for a few more announcements before they really close. Some nice guy holds the door open for me. I smile and say thanks. God I hate running for the train, now I'm all hot and sweaty. Gross.
** ding dong ** Doors closing. Chicago is next. Door open on the right at Chicago.
Looks like I'm lucky, the train isn't too full. Looking around to see if I'm stepping on someone's toes, I notice an older lady struggling to keep her balance as the train starts moving. She has a few bags, making it that much more difficult. Why isn't anyone getting up to let her sit? I don't get people sometimes.
I grab on the pole awkwardly with my arm around it so it rests in the crook of my elbow, so I can put my hair up. God, it's hot in here! I see a young lesbian couple, cuddling and kissing. That in itself doesn't bother me, what I start wondering is why do lesbian girls like manly looking girls? Wouldn't it make more sense to go after girls who actually look like girls? Oh well, I guess I'll ask my gay friends another time.
**ding dong** This is Clark and Division. North and Clybourn is next** ding dong** Doors closing.
I'm almost home, just two more stop. A tall woman jams herself next to me. I don't like starring, but she has a beard. Doesn't she know? Long black curly fuckers, too. Yuck, they look like pubes...
I feel eyes on me. Do I have something on my face? Do I smell? Or are they actually looking at someone behind me and I'm paranoid? I'm probably paranoid ...
I see a baby is in its stroller waving a little stuffed bear. A young man stares lovingly at this little girl. He's adjusting the blanket, wiping her nose, and tickling her tiny feet... It makes me smile...
** ding dong ** Doors closing
Damn! Why are there so many people? When I see people going to the beach or coming back from shopping with 10 bags during rush hour, it gets me mad. Why can't you do leisure stuff on off-hours? Wait an hour so the trains are not so full of commuters. Who knows what they are doing on the train. I don't know their story, but I still hate them a little. They have as much right to be on that train as I do, but I figure my purpose it more just, therefore I resent them. I guess I'm just a bad person.
My thoughts trail off as I decide I'm going to be more patient and have a better outlook on people in general. I look at the little girl in the stroller and it makes me smile again.
** ding dong ** Belmont is next. Transfer for Brown and Purple lines at Belmont.
Here's my stop. Finally, I get a burst of cool fresh air as the door opens and I suddenly realize how bad the guy standing next to me smells. I don't get why washing is such a foreign concept to people.
As I wrestle my way to the door to try to get off the train, some guy sneeze all over my coat- ewwww, I didn't need that!!
Hey! Asshole! I already have a cold; I don't need yours, thanks!
Then, some huge lady giving shoves me back in (making sure she gives me a dirty look, then rolling her eyes), because I didn't get out of her way to let her in... "What the fuck!" I say as I shove back. Maybe if she let me get out first maybe, just maybe, she could fit her 300lb body through the fucking door!
That's it! Fuck you people, and the train you rode in on!
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Submitted by canadia (user info) at 2005-04-25 16:45:25 EDT (#)
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Submitted by wanderingsharps (user info) at 2005-04-23 09:58:34 (#)
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you said thanks to a man who held the door for you?
living in NH, its good to hear that there are decent women still.
I hold the door becuase it is the right thing to do, and hear a thanks
about 1/5th of the time.....
....so come visit, and I"ll get the door for you...
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You'd have to catch me on a very bad day for me to do nothing when someone holds the door. I don't expect it, but I do appreciate it when someone holds the door for me, or offers me their seat. I usually don't take the seat, but I always say "No thank you, I'm getting off soon". Wait, maybe I shouldn't say that, that's not what I mean. Oh well...maybe other people don't have a dirty mind.
Submitted by Feijuada (user info) at 2005-04-23 10:24:32 EDT (#)
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Hahaha, "bra in the bra car". I meant bar car.
Submitted by Feijuada (user info) at 2005-04-23 10:24:04 EDT (#)
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I feel your pain. I have to take the train fairly often and the people on it are weirdos.
Then again, I am the one sitting on the bra in the bra car listening to Megadeth and Iron Maiden while reading a newspaper.
Submitted by wanderingsharps (user info) at 2005-04-23 09:58:34 EDT (#)
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you said thanks to a man who held the door for you?
living in NH, its good to hear that there are decent women still.
I hold the door becuase it is the right thing to do, and hear a thanks
about 1/5th of the time.....
....so come visit, and I"ll get the door for you...
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2005-04-22 12:51:49 EDT (#)
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That whole elevator thing was in the time before badges there. It was 100% about terrorism - silly really. When you get out of the elevator on the 14th floor, there is a receptionist right there. I suppose that she's too stupid to recognize a terrorist so we had to be protected with elevator codes - because no terrorist would ever dream of standing there in the elevator and watching people type in their code.
Here we have badges and it pretty much works like yours does. The really funny thing is that I had to go down to the mailroom once and saw that there is a huge ass bay that I'm pretty sure a space shuttle could fit into wide ass open to the blue Carolina sky and no security in sight. Oh but to get to my desk, I have to scan my id so the little light on the door will turn green allowing me to come inside where I also have to show it to a security guard who I suppose is some kind of expert in fake id recognition.
It all makes me feel safe and secure.
Submitted by canadia (user info) at 2005-04-21 11:44:51 EDT (#)
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loki, they made you use codes in the elevator? Why? Do you work in a government office?
Here, in a hospital/lab environment, they make us walk around with ID's. I understand that- you don't want random people off the street running around a lab that uses deadly chemicals and grows cancer like it's weeds... Yet, if we forget our ID to get in the building, the lady downstairs (who sees us walk in everyday) makes us sign a name (I say A name, because who knows if it's our real name) on a sheet and give us a little temp pass with the floor we say we are going to, never asking why we are here, or what we are doing. She does this to everyone, even patients who come in or their families she's never seen. How does this make us safer?
It's all an illusion of safety.....bt mostly, it's a pain in the ass.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-04-20 21:02:54 EDT (#)
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"Some nice guy holds the door open for me. I smile and say thanks."
Auto +2 not being stuck up
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2005-04-20 19:40:58 EDT (#)
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People who don't understand the simple concept of letting someone off a train/elevator/bus before you get on should serve hard time as stun gun testers.
Right after 9/11 everyone was panicking about terrorism. Really idiotic and senseless things were going on in the name of security because after all there was a really good chance that the terrorist were out there sitting in some cave plotting to blow up one of the smaller buildings on the outskirts of the 23rd largest city in the country. One of the new measures to help gear us all up for going to war with Iraq was to turn on the elevator codes in my building. Before that, we only had to use them on the weekends. The way it worked was that to oh say get to the 14th floor, you had to punch in 14-14-11-14. I swear 90% of the time, I would get 14-14-11 punched in and some jackass would try to put his code in on the other key pad thus screwing up the sequence. I had to get mine in quickly too because that set of elevators went to floors 14-24 so if I didn't get my code in first, I would end up joyriding up and down the fucking elevator all goddamn morning.
I don't even work there anymore and I'm still irritated about it.
Submitted by canadia (user info) at 2005-04-20 15:16:28 EDT (#)
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ride to and from work suck, but the late night rides by yourself from the south side are pretty rough.. unless you like seeing guys jerk off and piss-drunk people fall on your lap when the train stops...
Submitted by jumpinjellyfish (user info) at 2005-04-20 15:11:57 EDT (#)
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Anger can be so cleansing!
Submitted by Chi_Guy (user info) at 2005-04-20 15:02:39 EDT (#)
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I hate riding the subway / EL in Chicago.
Submitted by ess-arr (user info) at 2005-04-20 15:00:57 EDT (#)
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pollute the world, buy a car...
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2005-04-20 14:55:46 EDT (#)
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Huzzah for bearded ladies!
Submitted by gtz (user info) at 2005-04-20 14:52:05 EDT (#)
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I hate women with pubes on their face. I remember in middle school me and my friends were in the principals office a lot. The whole time we were in there, we were staring at her disgusting black beard, instead of listening to her stupid shit.
Submitted by canadia (user info) at 2005-04-20 14:51:57 EDT (#)
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I'm still sick, but ranting helps...
Thanks for wondering!
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2005-04-20 14:50:09 EDT (#)
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YAY!
I actually thought to myself today "I hope she's feeling better!"
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2005-04-20 14:49:18 EDT (#)
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Mass transit sucks.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2005-04-20 14:46:37 EDT (#)
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