Chicago: The Eponymous Thread

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (3255 of them)

View Previous Page...

whatevs, dan, i know you can drive in the snow. you go ahead.

with jesse, it really would be a deathtrap, though.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

That's nice! It's good know what other people think.

Hahah, XP.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

So is walking though. :-(

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha my friend Shawn just sent me an email, the subject line of which read: "Me getting stuck in snow today @ lunch" and the entire body of the message was "Embarassing..." and this picture:

http://www.geocities.com/starwarsliving/HothWampaCaveLuke.jpg

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoa, we're getting out at 3:30.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that really him??

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that really him??

lol

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Those UP stories... I mean, you never know...

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahaha! It's partially referential humor, we watched ESB the other night.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

And with that, I am gonna go brave the roads. Don't worry, Kenan!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, there's a car outside my window trying to un-parallel park, and is stuck. I am smiling about this. DON'T DRIVE TODAY, GENIUS.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost, except for dan. dan gets to drive. alone on the roads.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I had to drive this morning because I realized that I had parked on Ashland overnight, which is usually fine except on days when there's more than 2 inches of snow.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I made it to class with a minimum of pain. I am about to go reexperience the pain to get home. I have told Worker Justice, Inc. to cram it with walnuts. I have also discovered, much to my dismay, that my boots are not quite as waterproof as one might wish. :(

Goodbye forever.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Goodbye.

I'm reading Nylon magazine online.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I bought a bed frame the other day and I have a gigantic crush on the girl who sold it to me. Hitting on retail employees seems automatically crepey though?

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Just...do it outside of work hours? Leave a msg for after her shift or something. I dunno how exactly to work out the details. But hitting on someone while they're in public/on the clock/visible to their employers is pretty awkward for them.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Laurel OTM. I also feel like retail workers would automatically be irritated by flirting from people they would in other circumstances be more open to, just given the nature of retail work.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Totally, that's why I didn't do it. :(

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Learn from the masters:

Markp
Jess

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

OK BYE YOU GUYS

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

mmm pills.

-- Ask For Samantha (...), April 11th, 2004.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

That Jess thread is classic.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I suppose this silence means most people are home now.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i just came in from shoveling snow for 2 hours. now i am listening to cheap trick.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

MBN

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

not shoveling snow though, I guess

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember when I was little being paid to shovel people's driveways. I bet I was really slow and did a crappy job. I usually got hot chocolate though.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

sadly, i was not paid to shovel :(

i am now waiting to hear back from a bank i applied at!

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Are you done with school yet, todd? I can't remember.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not home, nor will be for several hours (got to make up that time I spent playing at a high school assembly!).

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

i am basically done... i am back home, but i am taking one class online then i will be done.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, Elaborate on the high school scene. Tell us about the kids these days.

Awesome, todd.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

My plan for the evening:
Walk to Bus
Take bus to bank
Do stuff at bank (not rob it)
Go to video store
Pray Marie Antoinette is in
Pray they let me rent it even though we already have movies out
Walk the rest of the way home

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

don't rob the bank
don't rob the bank
don't rob the bank
you're cool, just don't rob the bank

Just keep repeating that you'll be fine.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I went out to dig our car out of the snow and discovered that our car mysteriously has almost no snow on it. Either some mysterious good samaritan cleaned it off or it was shielded from all the snow by being parked next to the garage for the building next door.

I stayed at home and rewatched a bunch of Freaks & Geeks today.

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't have any juicy anecdotes about the hs kids, but it was a little unnerving playing in the gymnasium (worst acoustics ever) for all of their jaded little eyes.

xpost, nice

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm home. The drive wasn't bad except for the madness at the intersections around LSD. Why don't people stop going across when it's obvious no more cars can fit? The roads are moving except for down there.

LSD sucked up until about 47th, then the wind was blowing and the snow was drifting so a lot of people just stopped, which made it so much easier to go around them. :)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I am still at work, don't get off till 6.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

suckfest

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

IT IS ASSHOLE DAY ON TEH TRAINS. I also lucked into an Addison bus that then got rear ended. No one was hurt and another bus came long and we all got on that and went home.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Asshole train things:

1. Youngish kid taking up two seats for sleepin' on a train so crowded people couldn't get into the doors.
2. Youngish kid wakes up, recognizes his assholery, and sits up. Grown up dude immediately throws his bag into the empty seat, saying "I NEED TO THROW MY BAG HERE."
3. Grown dude starts telling a companion about his recent travels, relating a story about how he was really rocking out to some music when the guy behind him asked him to please not rock out so hard because he was rattling his tray table and making eating/reading impossible. The guy's response was to ignore him and keep on rocking because, "Hey, I've got a life to live."
4. Grown dude then went on to talk about how there were so many Mexicans out there and that he really couldn't stand that.
5. Meanwhile, less blatantly racist women standing next to me talked about the pros and cons of various resorts in Mexico based on the response time of the "little men" who brought them drinks.
6. Train finally pulled into Addison and Grown Dude and his companions, who were standing in front of the door, refused to move to let people out. I let off some steam by telling him, "You are a fucking asshole" as I pushed past him to squeeze out of the door.

Then I bought beer and I am drinking it now.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

4. Grown dude then went on to talk about how there were so many Mexicans out there and that he really couldn't stand that.
5. Meanwhile, less blatantly racist women standing next to me talked about the pros and cons of various resorts in Mexico based on the response time of the "little men" who brought them drinks.

wow.

I let off some steam by telling him, "You are a fucking asshole" as I pushed past him to squeeze out of the door.

I love you, Jenny!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, there was a lot of Mexican hate on that train today.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Those people must not ride the Blue Line.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

The women would be ordering drinks from all the Blue Line riders like Lucille does when she attends the Desis.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I MADE AN ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT JOKE.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

omg that is so otm, too! that would be awkward.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

DON'T DRIVE TODAY, GENIUS.
Some of us have to drive to work because taking the train/bus would take about 2 hours each way.

That said, I wanted to kill myself after spending THREE HOURS getting home from the west side today. Instead of killing myself I will drink some wine and eat some dinner and try not to kill myself.

I saw a snow drift in the middle of the road on LSD that was taller than I am.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I would have rather spent 2 hours on the bus than three hours putzing through Chicago alone in my car at 2 mph.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Skipping 3155 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.