What was your most embarassing newbie mistake after moving to Chicago (Washington: living, trains)

[jwaiter]

Originally Posted by ERS-One

Ahem, this is sort of blue, so edit away if necessary:

I've heard worse on prime time television (2 and a half men).

[knitgirl]

Originally Posted by Lorielicious

Wait -- hold the phone. Someone please splain to me how this works. So you're not expected to drive after you're ticketed? Otherwise you're driving around without a license, non?

You have to use the ticket as your license.

[knitgirl]

I hadn't heard that joke before,not offended.

[ERS-One]

Originally Posted by jwaiter

I've heard worse on prime time television (2 and a half men).

No kidding? I wonder what the context was. Anyway, this place sometimes doesn't get the leeway primetime network television is afforded.

[tompope]

Originally Posted by ERS-One

No kidding? I wonder what the context was. Anyway, this place sometimes doesn't get the leeway primetime network television is afforded.

Yeah, it's kind of too bad, in a way. Realistically, you could not just hint at obscenity, but actually recite the entire George Carlin list on this forum (or on prime-time TV, for that matter), and most people wouldn't find it intrinsically offensive (especially on a Chicago forum). But there are always a few who do get easily offended (and seem to even enjoy getting offended), and they tend to be particularly loud, shrill, and self-righteous about it. Oh, well. Anyhow, thanks for the chuckle this morning, ERS-One.

[rca215]

Stood at the Fullerton Red Line stop for 75 minutes waiting to transfer to the Purple Line...on a Sunday.

To my credit, it was two months before I moved here.

[jahk]

Originally Posted by rca215

Stood at the Fullerton Red Line stop for 75 minutes waiting to transfer to the Purple Line...on a Sunday.

To my credit, it was two months before I moved here.

I did close to the same, but in the Loop on a weekday in the middle of the day. In order to catch the Brown Line I had to change sides of the station, which meant going out the exit and back in the other side. I was using a pass, which won't work at the same station more than once in about 20 minutes, so I ended up walking to the next station and boarding there.

[Chicago60614]

Originally Posted by FAReastcoast

My first weekend here (which was only a few months ago), I was out at a bar in Lincoln Park with a few friends of mine (all Chicagoans)), and I asked the bar tender if he could put the Yankees game on one of the TV's (they were playing on FOX), there were only 20 or so people in the bar, and nobody was really paying attention so I didnt think they would mind. The bar tender asked if I was a New Yorker (I have a heavy NY accent ive been told), and the bar tender screamed to everyone "Hey! This guy is a New Yorker!!", everyone in the bar started chanting "New York Sucks, New York Sucks!"; this went on for a good minute....I bought the bar a round, and everything was fine. I now know not to advertise im a New Yorker here.

I'm pretty sure everyone was just joking around. In 10 years I've never heard anything about some New York rivalry or anything like that. People who have never been to either place seem to magically think there is one, but New York to Chicagoans is just New York. Most people love it, some people don't, but it's not something you should ever hide or think will pis$ people off

[FAReastcoast]

Originally Posted by Chicago60614

I'm pretty sure everyone was just joking around. In 10 years I've never heard anything about some New York rivalry or anything like that. People who have never been to either place seem to magically think there is one, but New York to Chicagoans is just New York. Most people love it, some people don't, but it's not something you should ever hide or think will pis$ people off

I completely agree, however, in my short time here, I have had a couple of friendly jabs about being from New York; all in good fun of course.

[Chi-town Native]

Originally Posted by FAReastcoast

I completely agree, however, in my short time here, I have had a couple of friendly jabs about being from New York; all in good fun of course.

Which borough, just out of curiosity? My favorite New Yorker moment in Chicago was a group of Mets fans from Queens who sat behind me at Wrigley a few years back.

They were happy to have found someone who actually had been going to Cubs games for years (my first game was in 78), and I was pretty happy to hear some inside dirt on the Mets!