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Attention all PDA-loving Chicagoans, I just gotta ask: Where are your make out manners?! Maybe it was rude of me to snap this darling little picture below, but it didn’t seem to disturb the two lovebirds who were eating each others faces on the El!
Making out is not gross. But sloppily making out in public, especially in a place where there is a captive audience (i.e. I cannot claw open the doors on the El and throw myself on the tracks) is not only gross, but it’s rude! The poor lady sitting across from these two had a blank expression on her face as she tried hard not to look or throw up. Still, she had to listen to the smacking, the moaning and the general ickiness coming from the make out session across from her.
Even a group of young men in a train that was passing our train on the track saw this PDI (Public Display of Impropriety), pointed and laughed uncontrollably.
Unfortunately, people on my train put up with this behaviour for not one or two stops but for 10 stops! Ew ew ew!!!!
Dev xx
Today, I discovered something that really, really bugs me. Bad escalator manners.
What is up with Chicagoans not following the simple rule of: walk on the left, stand to the right. It is just pure craziness.
Today I was trying to book it out of the Jackson red line station to make it to class on time. I cleared the doors of the El train, successfully dodged incoming traffic walking down the platform and thought I was in the clear when I made it to the escalator. All I had to do was sprint up the moving stairs and bam! I would have made it.
But no! Idiot McRude was STANDING on the left side of the stairs and blocked my path.
“Excuse me,” I bleated quietly at first. “HEY! EXCUSE ME,” I finally belted out as I shoved my way by. He gave a disapproving grunt but I could have not cared less. He was in the wrong for standing in the walking lane. This is just as bad of an offence as driving slow in a passing lane. It is such a simple courtesy, but so many people are just too oblivious to care!
Is anyone with me?! Does anyone want to plaster the city with “WALK ON THE LEFT, STAND TO THE RIGHT” posters? I cannot be the only one!
Dev xx
