Chicago: They paved a fetid swamp/and put up a parking lot

Hahahahahahaha! Jenny I'm so sorry!

I mean no way, right? You weren't still in Evanston?? Awesome tale either way.

Looollllll no! Here is the message I tried to post immediately after had I not been thwarted by bad cell reception:

Just kidding. I'm three beers deep at the Northdown Cafe.

This trip will take on a nightmarish quality if I forget to get off at Howard, too. Or if I get on the Skokie Swift by mistake.

Imagining you on the Purple line, pulling into Howard muttering "C'mon, c'mon," then cutting to your face as it dawns on you that you boarded a Union Pacific NW Metra train.

xp - ha

I thought that first message posted so I put my phone down and imagine my surprise when I picked it up and it was like "NO INTERNET YOUR MESSAGE DID NOT POST YOUR FRIENDS THINK YOU'RE IN EVANSTON, GENIUS."

I'm home now. I've had beer and dinner and pie. All is well.

I did totally get shafted by the cab driver who drove me to the bar from Howard. Don't have enough change my ass.

Glad you were not stuck in Evanston too long. It seems like a lot of the cabbies that venture up that far north pull that "no change" bullshit, its happened to me on a couple of occassions.

Finally started watching Breaking Bad last night, three episodes in so far and OMG WHY DID WE WAIT!?!?

Pay those asshole cabbies with plastic.

Yeah, except in Austin, where apparently the cabbies are allowed to refuse plastic. I was incensed dealing with the cabbie that took me back to the airport. At one point during our exchange he threatened to hold my luggage in his trunk until I went to get cash.

This asshole cabbie told me cash only.

I'm never leaving city limits again.

Yeah I mean, I know its technically illegal for them to not take your credit card, but, uh, good fucking luck when you're stuck in the back of a cab with a driver berating you and threatening you.

Right. The person I was meeting for dinner was like "Why didn't you make him go into a store for change?!?!?" Ummm because I was almost 45 minutes late meeting you?

If a can driver did that to me I'd immediately call the police from the back of the cab.

Cab driver

Haha one time a cabbie threatened to call the police on ME for not having cash to pay him and I was like, "I'd LOVE for you to call them, go right ahead!". Suddenly his machine mysteriously started working again.

Jeff OTM

Do you all remember former ChILXor Dave? He got arrested for not having cash to pay the cab driver, iirc. That was a long time ago, though.

Wait, what, seriously? Thats insane!

Those heady days of 2006.

There may be parts to the story that we don't know - like maybe his credit card didn't work, either, but the gist of it was that he didn't have cash, the driver wouldn't take a card, and Dave got in trouble with the law.

I was actually just thinking about Dave last night because I'm thinking about seeing the free show at iO tonight and so I was browsing the iO website and noticed that he's a regular performer there.

Oh wait -- he's actually performing tonight! Anyone want to watch Dave (and a bunch of other people) do improv with me?

(Watch with me, that is. I won't be doing improv with Dave.)

T0mas said a cab driver told him the credit card machine was broken. Tomas got cash but also told the driver he was going to report him to 311, to which the cabbie responded with a rant about Mayor Daley being a piece of shit.

xp - oh god no

"credit card machine broken" = "you're SOL, cabbie"

They are responsible for the machines, and everything else in the car. They lease from the cab companies.

Oh cool! I didn't know he was an improver. That makes me happy.

Tonight is all about working late and finishing laundry so no room for improv.

I would think that the cab companies' agreements w/ the CC companies says that they have to call in a transaction if the machine is broken. Also perhaps that they have to have an operational machine.

I didn't know he was an improver.

Always improving, that guy.

Good old Dave.

i met with the librarian at the John D. and Catherine T. M@cArthur Foundation today. That place is crazy. They own the Marquette Building and have offices on like four different floors. Makes my office/library feel pretty shabby.

I hope he's appearing tonight in TJ & Dave & Dave. Either way, I may be up for going. Early show, mid-eve show?

I think he was just 21 and felt like he could tell the driver he didn't have any cash.

Let's all go to the show and line up by height. It could be really funny, if he looks across the room and gets it.

xp If you ever want to feel better about your office space, come to my work. One of our toilets is broken and three are completely ripped out of the wall. And two of four sinks have three inches of standing water in them. That's just for starters.

There's also an eight foot poster of Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider propped up in the hall next to a giant trash can.

Jenny, you have _got_ to calm down and stop ripping those toilets out of the wall.

Either way, I may be up for going. Early show, mid-eve show?

Was thinking about the 8 PM free show. Will try to get there by 7:30 to snag a seat.

i am the shortest chilxor and i am not going to this show

does anyone want to see austra with me on friday?

What the hay, I'm up for the improv tonght, can't do Austra. Haven't seen improv in a while, and the price is right.

Nice.

R & I were kind of considering going to the Bottle to see these guys tonight, but I don't know if it's gonna happen. A, you might like it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9cBmmKPFvM

that sounds fun but i can't go anywhere tonight
why because my head is full of snot

Not that I'd trade our little guy for anything in the world, but it seems like there's been an incredible run of shows I'm missing since he was born. Really want to see Kvelertak.

why because my head is full of snot

When the performers ask for a suggestion, you can just blow snot at the stage and everyone will crack up.

cmon. that's gross.

It's Wrigleyville, Jake.

it's germs, sal.

My left thumb has been twitching for 3 days. It's like it's possessed. It's such a big twitch that when I hold my hands on my keyboard, it sometimes presses the space bar. It's sort of cool tbh.

I get a mad left thumb twitch every night as I lay down to go to sleep. And yeah, it is strangely cool. Like, "Whoa. Involuntary, dude!"

NICK: There's been an important development in the world of popcorn-based snack melanges.

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