Mar. 31st, 2008 09:19 am
Bitch, bitch, grin
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muckefuckToday at the check cashing place, a woman tried to slip me the most obviously counterfeit fiver I have ever seen. I mean, for the most part it was pretty good, but then it had this ginormous ONE INCH HIGH purple numeral "5" in the lower right-hand corner. She tried to insist that it was legal tender, but I said, "Look, lady, try that one on the Ruskies. I was born here, I think I know what a freakin' five-dollar bill was supposed to look like." Finally, she gave in and I got a real bill instead of funny money.
In other Monday morning news, the CTA was so effed up that I ended up spending 23 minutes of a 41-minute commute standing around like an asshole on the platform as trains whizzed past me. I especially appreciate how they ran the delayed Express...um...express past the first three stations (hurrah!) only to break the news at the last minute that they were expressing past the next three stations as well (hiss!), so I had to walk twice as far to work. Which I might have appreciated if I wasn't (a) already late and (b) out in the freezing drizzle.
The one compensation is that walking farther meant that I got to see the first snowdrops of spring. Well, I guess the other compensation is that it's Opening Day at Wrigley Field, which means that there will be literally thousands of morons huddled under tarps and wraps in weather you wouldn't leave a dog out in to watch a team play that hasn't won a World Series in ONE HUNDRED YEARS. The only thing that impairs my sense of schadenfreude is that it's also Opening Day at Busch Stadium and there's a flash flood watch in effect for all of Metro STL. On the other hand, highs in 70s. Suck it, Cubs fans!
In other Monday morning news, the CTA was so effed up that I ended up spending 23 minutes of a 41-minute commute standing around like an asshole on the platform as trains whizzed past me. I especially appreciate how they ran the delayed Express...um...express past the first three stations (hurrah!) only to break the news at the last minute that they were expressing past the next three stations as well (hiss!), so I had to walk twice as far to work. Which I might have appreciated if I wasn't (a) already late and (b) out in the freezing drizzle.
The one compensation is that walking farther meant that I got to see the first snowdrops of spring. Well, I guess the other compensation is that it's Opening Day at Wrigley Field, which means that there will be literally thousands of morons huddled under tarps and wraps in weather you wouldn't leave a dog out in to watch a team play that hasn't won a World Series in ONE HUNDRED YEARS. The only thing that impairs my sense of schadenfreude is that it's also Opening Day at Busch Stadium and there's a flash flood watch in effect for all of Metro STL. On the other hand, highs in 70s. Suck it, Cubs fans!