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chicago du'ers!!! step up to the plate here!!!!! |
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at least kick the thread, eh???
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Sunday has been reserved for quite some time, and Wednesday is well.....Wednesday. Actually, I only have to really work hard and late one day per quarter and that day just happens to be this coming Wednesday.
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Thu Apr-20-06 11:48 AM
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5. I'm going to be at work Sunday |
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I'm sorry, I won't be able to make it. We're doing some hardware maintenance on one of our servers here on Sunday.
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Sat Apr-22-06 10:36 AM
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40. well, come down on wed. |
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Thu Apr-20-06 12:03 PM
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6. Wish I could be there! |
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This is the weekend (and week!) from hell. Sorry to miss the fun!
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Thu Apr-20-06 01:38 PM
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7. I am moving on 4/29.... |
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and have tons of shit left to do in the house.
Have fun all!
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Thu Apr-20-06 01:44 PM
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Thu Apr-20-06 01:57 PM
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14. I need several drinks... |
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but I need them as I pack 50+ years into boxes, clean, throw old crap out, etc.
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Thu Apr-20-06 01:42 PM
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8. Mopinko, you are the greatest! |
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I'm so looking forward to meeting you!
In the meantime, c'mon, DU'ers of Chicago! You know you want to heckle me about my baseball team, my terrible sense of direction and the fact that this is the biggest city I've been to yet on my own! :scared:
Think of the fun we'll have!
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Thu Apr-20-06 01:49 PM
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10. everyone please tell julie |
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what a friendly city chicago it. it's the worlds biggest small town. seriously. tell 'er.
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I lived there for a year, which was a year too long. Rudest human beings on the planet. I always had this feeling that they were rude because they thought big city people were supposed to be, and they wanted to look like big city people.
And then there's the fact that my car was broken into FOUR TIMES. Four times in one year.
Yeah, a great place. If you like that sort of thing.
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Thu Apr-20-06 01:55 PM
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Thu Apr-20-06 02:06 PM
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16. What part of town were you parking your car in? |
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elk grove ain't another planet, ya know.
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Thu Apr-20-06 02:29 PM
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18. Okay, now I'm worried |
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>Rudest human beings on the planet.<
I thought that dubious honor belonged to the denizens of another very large city on the East Coast!
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Thu Apr-20-06 02:32 PM
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19. Julie, don't worry..... |
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Chicagoans are the best people in the world. Yes, some are rude, but that is true everywhere.
Sorry I can't be there to meet you, but I am truly up to my ears in moving.
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Thu Apr-20-06 02:47 PM
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21. If Chicagoans are the best people in the world |
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the world is in serious trouble.
But what I liked about Chicago is the money I saved on tips at restaurants and other places. I absolutely DO NOT tip if the wait staff is rude to me or anyone else. So, I almost NEVER had to leave a tip in Chicago. It was like they were genetically incapable of being polite. More money for me!!
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If we get bad service, we leave just 15%. :shrug:
And I have to say - I have LOVED my time spent in Chicago. Going back again soon - to visit some of my favorite people in the world.
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Thu Apr-20-06 04:29 PM
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24. 15% is for basic, decent service |
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20% for good service
0% for most servers in Chicago.
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Thu Apr-20-06 04:30 PM
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25. If people I know in Chicago want to see me |
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they know where I live
I don't do Chicago
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Fri Apr-21-06 01:27 AM
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Especially Chicago's service industry. They'd appreciate you staying right where you are.
Strangely enough, I've spent a great deal of time in that lovely state whose flag you bear as your avatar. Amazing how when you travel the country, you discover that crime can happen to you anywhere and that people can act like little shits everywhere, without exception. Even Chicago. Even Iowa.
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Fri Apr-21-06 09:50 AM
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that that 25% tip never happened. i mean, i am a stupidly generous tipper, having worn out a few pairs of shoes in my time, but i have never been on either end of a 25% tip.
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Sat Apr-22-06 02:06 PM
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47. I tip at 25% all the time, if the service is good |
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Which never happened in Chicago
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Sat Apr-22-06 02:05 PM
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46. I wasn't traveling in Chicago when my car was broken into |
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I was living there. Serving a church there to be exact. The first time, they stole my communion kit.
It is a wonderful city.
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Sat Apr-22-06 02:09 PM
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never even locked my house. Never. And never the victim of crime. Not once.
We can compare the official crime stats for Iowa and Chicago, if you'd like.
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Sat Apr-22-06 02:47 PM
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54. 18 years plus in chicago- never the victim of a crime. not once. |
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unless you count the current resident of the whit house- but even iowa gets hit by that one.
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in one year. People in my neighborhood used to joke that "BMW" stood for "break my window". Which doesn't explain why my Ford Escort was so enticing. One was a "smash and grab" with me in the car! My resume went out the next day. And I was never again the victim of crime.
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Thu Apr-20-06 05:24 PM
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27. you get what you pay for here, for sure. |
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in 25 years here, i have had a handful of bad experiences. and exactly zero meals where the service was so bad i stiffed them. but i don't ask for it, like apparently you do.
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Thu Apr-20-06 05:46 PM
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28. First they serve me, then I tip 'em |
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And I've never stiffed a server anywhere but Chicago. I normally tip at 20-25%. But if you throw the food at the table, speak brusquely and don't have time to refill my cup, I get to keep the tip. See how that works?
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Sat Apr-22-06 02:49 PM
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55. well, now that you've departed- |
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the niceness factor of the average chicagoan has definitely increased. :hi: thanks!
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Sat Apr-22-06 02:55 PM
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A proud Chicago tradition
REally, if I'm not good enough for you, could you refund my tax dollars?
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Sat Apr-22-06 07:34 PM
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66. I seriously doubt that QuestionAll has ANY access to your tax dollars. |
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But thank you for kicking mopinko's thread so often.
Now, please go back to Iowa.
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Sun Apr-23-06 01:33 PM
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most of us downstaters would be happy if Chicago didn't have access to our tax dollars. Or if the governor who won't leave the city didn't have the power to raid the teachers' pension funds.
But alas....
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Thu Apr-20-06 02:43 PM
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20. Just don't lock your car |
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That way, they just open the door. It's easier than replacing windows...over and over and over....
If you must visit a city, Boston's nice. They could give Chicagoans lessons in etiquette. Five years in Boston, one in Chicago. Boston's better.
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36. 18 years in chicago, never had the car broken into once... |
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and twice in the last year, my wife has left her purse on the front seat, overnight, with the car unlocked, and the window rolled down...no problems.
and if you'd had bad luck with servers in chicago- it can only be because they picked up pretty quickly on your personality...you gotta GIVE respect to get it.
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41. i've had my car stolen |
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3 times, but i always got it back. once they drove it 2 blocks, and dumped it. probably because it had about 2 drops of gas. but ya know, i have never had anything happen to my person, or to my kids. 25 years, and i can count on one hand the number of assholes that i have had to deal with. or the number of bad food servers i have had for that matter. and if you have any doubts about what a great place this is, spend an hour in millennium park.
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60. thanks for kickin the thread |
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62. If you dont see stolen cars as a bad thing, |
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you've lived in Chicago too long. You see, in the rest of the world, auto theft is a crime.
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67. hey, they just borrowed it |
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i got it right back. worse shit than that happened to me is the tiny prairie town that i was raised in. and in between crimes, i was bored to tears. at least in chicago, you can have fun, and culture.
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70. Anyone with an imagination can have fun in a little prairie town |
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I was never bored or unhappy in a little prairie town. Best years of my life!! And my car was never broken into.
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And I have great luck with servers out here.
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52. then you've obviously found the best place for yourself... |
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Sat Apr-22-06 02:56 PM
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58. Except that Chicagoans keep moving out here |
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59. you mean...just like YOU did...? |
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61. I moved to Iowa, was there for 5 years, then made the mistake |
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of returning to the land of subdivisions and political corruption...and car break-ins. And I don't live in a subdivision, I live in a 130 year old house in the older part of the city. And I'm committed to staying here no more than 4 years, then returning to a civilized place. With open space and caucuses.
The really funny thing is that when people from the new subdivisions come down here to go to the movies or the Y or whatever, they ALWAYS turn on their car alarms. They're worried about their cars being broken into or stolen here. I guess they assume they brought Chicago's problems with them.
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Fri Apr-21-06 07:22 AM
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33. And Chicago hates you, too. |
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49. You don't seem to mind spending my tax money |
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Or can I have that back?
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63. Having lived here for 12 years, these are some of the nicest people around |
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I'm sorry you feel that way. I love this city...because I think Chicago is one of the friendliest places you could live. Hell, ANY place has rude people...even the smallest town. But I find Chicagoans on a whole to be open, friendly and just plain nice.
Sorry you feel this way about a world class city (in every sense of the word)
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64. I was just glad to get out |
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A year of my life wasted. I'd lived in a world class city before going to Chicago, so it was just one huge disappointment.
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Only 3 of us so far??? :wtf:
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15. Not sure if I can make it, but I'll keep the thread kicked. |
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Gotta go to Material Girl's softball practice right now, or I'd say something smart ass about hating Chicago but loving Chicagoans (hate the sin, love the sinner?).
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Getting prepared for a second back surgery. Wish I could make it. :-(
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i was wondering how you were doing. that is so not good. hope everything goes well. living with pain SUCKS!!!
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Sat Apr-22-06 09:55 AM
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37. I wish I could be there but I am booked. |
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I have a huge project at work, a huge freelance project, friends in from out of town, and a husband with an injured foot who can't help me much. But have fun! I wish the weather were going to be better. It's supposed to be chilly next week.
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38. you got me with that hubby part |
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mine is convalescing from a tonsillectomy. it does bollix up everything.
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39. Not a chicago DUer but a transplanted Milwaukeean who may |
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be in the area around then. I'll check my planner and see if I could swing that. I'd have to get a grandma sitter though. :hi:
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42. oooooooh that would be so great. |
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where would this granny be?
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44. She'd be in Milwaukee. I'd just have to drop her at one of the cousin's |
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We'll be going back home to pick up some of her belongings. She moved here just recently.
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45. hey, they're looking for you. |
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53. Shhhhhh....don't tell; MrG. I'm not supposed to be here today... |
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Go there whenever I can.
A Brit journalist (not Hitch, thank God) assigned to the U.S. for many years said he considered Chicago the unofficial U.S. capitol because it is so American in so many ways.
The DUer complaining so loudly about Chicago must walk around in his own bubble. I lived on the East Coast, got broken into a number of times, but am still willing to acknowledge the good things about the places where I lived. Good and bad people everywhere, good and bad experiences everywhere. Met some Brits not long ago who came to Chicago to have a look at the architecture; city's got a great reputation.
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69. a great place to raise kids. |
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i raised 5 kids here. i have no idea what drives people to the burbs, besides paranoia. my kids are all citizens of the planet. they live in the real world. it is a true microcosm.
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72. Im gonna be there.... |
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If something else gets resolved:P
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