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If you're riding the CTA trains, have your finger on 911 on the train and at the stations and PAY attention to your surroundings...this person probably saved his life, his high tech stuff and prevented becoming a victim. WAKE UP PEOPLE! This isn't "LaLa land"
ReplyDeleteAre CTA employees regularly stationed at the Bryn Mawr stop? I walked by there late one night a couple of years ago, and there were two employees standing around laughing and joking with one another.
ReplyDeleteDon't know, I try to avoid the CTA trains and the stations at all costs.
ReplyDeleteThis is true and I agree with you both: BE AWARE and these CTA employees should do something besides sit in a gate and collect $20 an hour...considering their a@@es are always crying broke and raising the fares. HOWEVER, some things are just common doggone sense. Come on, people!! Walking home at 2:45 a.m. in CHICAGO? SERIOUSLY, now REALLY? If you ARE walking, evidently you live pretty close by. Pay the $5 bux for a cab, Sherlock.
ReplyDeleteCase in point, I was on the Red Line train one day and this guy just whipped out his laptop and started typing away. He REALLY was an accident waiting to happen, especially since I got on at Wilson, a "hot spot train stop." Now, if I noticed him immediately and I am not a criminal, what do you think Mookie and Ray-Ray are going to do when they see him if they are already snatching phones and knocking little old ladies down and killing them in the process? EXACTLY!! Mind you, I don't think ANYONE has the right to take ANYTHING from ANYBODY. BUT, Um, HELL-LOOO! That does not mean just because it is your right to do something that you SHOULD, i.e. break out tech gadgets on a public train in a high crime city.
So when you do, don't act all surprised and all OMG! when something happens to you JUST because you are too arrogant and too stupid to realize it can and it WILL.
MissBee, your common sense points rock! :)
ReplyDeleteIn the pre-early/mid 1960s, one could walk around any area (yes, the bad ones too), sleep in the park and play at the beach at any time of the day or night-even 3 AM.
@Rudy, thank you. :) And, you are soooo right. I know I was a little bitty girl, but I just remember being so free.....*sigh*....isn't it just horrible and sad now? I love this doggone city and it is just going to the dogs. #pun intended. SHEESH! :(
ReplyDeleteMissBee..You go girl:) I've been saying this stuff for months on here. Heads up people! Pay attention! Don't sit by the exits IF YOU MUST DISPLAY YOUR HIGH TECH STUFF! Actually, don't even display it. Get that "it'll never happen to me" mentality outta your head!
ReplyDelete"In the pre-early/mid 1960s, one could walk around any area (yes, the bad ones too), sleep in the park and play at the beach at any time of the day or night-even 3 AM."...
give me the good old days back! I'd gladly trade all this fricking modern technology for the good old days back. Times were easy than.
MissBee, you're welcome! :)
ReplyDeletetowanda, I agree 1000%. :)