Comments on: Out of Touch

By: mike

mike — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:14:50 +0000

Doesn’t sound like a toss-up to me. Read into that what you will

Also, thanks SO MUCH for leaving me with Hall and Oates swirling around in my head.

By: churlita

churlita — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:02:59 +0000

Maybe one of those white haired lawyers wants to be your daddy and then you wouldn’t even have to go to work at all.

By: jenny

jenny — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:51:57 +0000

vahid: that would be my dream ride! i was just talking about puppet bike, and how people have seen him struggle to ride that bike that must weigh a gazillion pounds. i’m sure he wouldn’t mind me hopping in back while he rides the 7 miles downtown…

By: vahid

vahid — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:17:17 +0000

I imagine it would take more time than all these other methods combined, but I think you should try getting Puppet Bike to give you a ride to work.

By: jenny

jenny — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:12:59 +0000

dave: if given the choice between going to a major league baseball game and sitting in someone else’s urine for my train ride home, i’m honestly going with the pee. at least i know it will only last 35 minutes.

hilly: LOL. as a matter of fact, that’s kind of what i’ve been doing. why can’t i have the best/worst of both worlds?

sir: how much would you charge me to be my new life coach? i like the way you think!

don: oh man, if that wasn’t soup, then he has some hella scary disease!

shari: disco cab! it’s the only way to travel.

claire: i do have a parking spot at home, yet still, i am drawn in by the gritty urban allure of the el…

karen: okay, now even i won’t resort to the bus. but yeah, it sure does make for some good material!

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:26:47 +0000

A few months ago I moved to a new place along the brown line, and while I appreciate that it’s cleaner than my old west-side commute, I do sometimes miss the Madison Avenue bus crazies. The guys reeking of beer at 7am who’d pester me for my phone number were a little disturbing at times, but I will always hope for another sighting of the man who boarded the bus wearing plastic bags on his feet and a mid-thigh tshirt, demanding that the driver let him on. “I’m wearing SHORT pants! SHORT pants!*” Those were entertaining commutes.

*I could see by the rising sun behind him that he was in fact wearing NO pants, including those of the under-pant variety.

By: claire

claire — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:45:39 +0000

If you have a parking spot where you live, that should make the Metra a touchdown based on time when going home.

Besides, you’re giving the Metra cred by riding it and not being a gin-playing white-haired lawyer.

By: shari

shari — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:57:21 +0000

Oh Don… I may never recover from that comment.

Jenny, can’t you just take the Disco Cab?

By: Don

Don — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:25:40 +0000

Pajama guy was headed for the clinic, and he wasn’t taking soup.

By: You can call me, 'Sir'

You can call me, 'Sir' — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:28:54 +0000

Spray some graffiti on the metra. That way both it and you will immediately have serious street cred.