There ’s no experience quite like ride on public transit in Chicago . The CTA is famous for its high-minded train , annoying fare card system , and at the very least being cleaner than New York City ’s public passage . There are a lot of nuanced experiences that will call for to be go out to be believed . If you ’re a everyday commuter you ’ve likely get a lot of these discipline off your lean .
On the bus
Tourists will be totally incognizant they keep causing the back doors to unfold … yet they ca n’t visualize out how they spread out when they need to get off .
You will be rerouted around a street festival … and then another , and another , and another .
Young Bulls lover will shout - sing ' 90s pop hits at the top of their lungs after a win"Hey now , you ’re an all - star . Get your game on . Get pay . "
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You will find yourself reading a romance novel over someone ’s shoulder#ThrobbingMember
You ’ll be delayed waiting for an octogenarian to debate their way of life onto the passenger vehicle … without a process Ventra walk , but the machine driver wo n’t wait for them to sit down before he hie off .
Your driver will hold all passenger hostage fence with someone who wo n’t buckle in a wheelchair … when she ’s probably not even get into a seat belt herself .
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You will sit next to a sick computerized tomography on their way to the vet … and that meowsical kitten will pawsitively smash your caturday .
The A / C will be put to work … in February .
You will pass Menomonee … and getthis songstuck in your head .
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You will wait and hold back and expect for people to MOVE TO THE BACK OF THE BUS!Seriously , it ’s like three steps . You will be earmark off the bus !
A legion of hormonal high school students will overcome your entire bus channelise homeLove is real , guys .
You will await 25 minutes for your bus , watching dozens of others go the polar focusing … and the same again later when you need to channelize .
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Someone will come down asleep on youAt least you have someone to cuddle away the cold with .
On the ‘L'
You ’ll gleefully run onto the only empty car during haste hour … and quickly learn to never dothatagain .
You will partake a seat with someone ’s fully functioning road cycle … and never understand why they just didn’tride it home !
You ’ll get the one cheery music director seduce upsurge 60 minutes proclamation on the red air … and it will make your day .
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A few Sox fans will run out their beers on you on the way to the biz … and you ’ll always wish they offered you one .
Meanwhile , a Cubs fan may spill different fluidsA retick time turkey .
You ’ll watch the shell plot guy and his cohorts hear to scam tourer … in disbelief that he has n’t been arrested 1,000 times .
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You will learn about squirrelsGod hallow Kickstarter .
Some cockcrow individual is a chatty a - jam on their way to work … and you ’re still keel from a belated Wednesday Nox . No judgement .
The date across the gangway from you will attempt to out - couple you and yours … but you know you two are precious .
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There will be a one - man drum circle … you did n’t bring your djembe ?
New Chicago transplants will overtake your car with all the Craigslist piece of furniture in the world … there had to have been free back street piece of furniture closer to the flat , you Guy .
You will waitress in suspend temperature to razz the Holiday Train … just because you ’re positive the rump are clean .
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You ’ll share a railcar with a pigeonBoy are his blazonry tired !
It will be freezing and herald on the weapons platform … and there will be no heat because it ’s July .
The train you ’re waiting for will go express and skip your station … and the string you get onto depart back will jump your full point due to construction .
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And in general
You will be break wind at and upon … perhaps even with lineal eye striking .
Mormon missionaries will attempt to have cursory chats with you … but if they are n’t endure their link , you wo n’t know until it ’s too late !
You will get thwack in the aspect by several large dismission of books … it ’s like readingWar and Peacethrough aggressive osmosis .
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You will be impel to listen to someone else ’s music on their speakerphone … because who does n’t like reggaeton mashups of Metallica and Shaggy ?
Someone will clip their toenail … and you ’ll be in clear firing range .
Manspreading … it ’s when a man physically mansplains how much man - room it thinks it world - pauperization .
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Someone will dispatch you in the face by spin the hanging handgrip over the ginmill … it was me .
Your brass will terminate up in an armpit … and not a white one .
You will make eye impinging with a person eating during the “ no feeding ” announcement … and wish you bring a snack .
You will see many different parenting technique … yet none of them seem to work .
holidaymaker will choke off the moving stairway , suffer on the untimely side … it ’s the bad game of chess .
A gaggle of people will block off right in front of the door when getting off to look at their phonesMultitasking is strong .
You will listen one half of a very personal headphone conversation … but now we all need to know who the daddy is .
There will be a twelve questionable spot on your seat … and you ’ll ride anyway . It was n’t pie-eyed , right ?
You will see a 1970s pimpLike , for substantial .
You will catch someone taking your word picture … and they ’ll make middle contact with you as they post it to Instagram .
You will judge the Tinder legal action of the person next to you … because that fille is way too immature for him .
You will listen someone give a tourist incorrect directions … but why would you correct them ?
You will start understand a book … You will not polish off a account book .
You will keep a genial tally of every CTA Safety PSA rule you ’ve brokenIt ’s like Bingo , but your prize is that you ’re still on the CTA .
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