“What do you mean it isn’t working?” I found myself asking a CTA bus driver earlier this week as I tried to use the Chicago Card Plus I’ve relied on for two years. “It’s just temperamental. See? If I just wave it back and forth….and sorta bend the edges here….or maybe just sneak up on [...]
Someone’s ganking my Netflix DVDs! Slowly but surely over the last five months, movies that I mail back from work-and only work- have mysteriously gone missing. The ones I mail from the mailbox on my corner all make it back within a day or two. But then a week or more will go by and [...]
I have hereby sworn off McDonald’s #1 breakfast combo that’s so kickass you can eat it in four bites. That’s right. I officially break up with YOU McDonald’s!I came to this decision when I was getting dressed for work the other morning and my ass literally ate my pants from last winter. WTF?! I thought. [...]
I’m not going to pretend that I’m talking about a friend or my mom or anybody else. This time it’s me. It’s my relationship. And it’s a mess. When did he stop being on my side? When did I stop being on his? I feel terrible that we’re becoming such strangers to each other, that [...]
I’m on the train into the city after work and am drawing a blank… What’s the deal with men who wear class rings? Why do they do that? What about “I’m 40-50 in my khaki Docker’s, on my way into the “Big City” for a night out on the town, and, oh yeah, college? I [...]
Sometimes I try to remember what I was like before. I know a lot of people try to remember what life was like before, so maybe it means I’m selfish now to wonder more specifically what I was like. But I do sometimes. I wonder whether I was any different at all, if what happened [...]
