Why do people have wrought iron fences? (Chicago, Quincy: loft, homes)

[jdiddy]

I didn't realize 'squares' wasn't a well known term.

[aragx6]

Originally Posted by jdiddy

I didn't realize 'squares' wasn't a well known term.

I don't think I'd ever heard it before.

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by surlycue

Oh my, simpler times.

Yep, it almost sounds quaint compared to the stuff I see teenagers doing today in Uptown and Edgewater.

I saw a thing on TV a few months back where a group of 1950s greasers were talking about the trouble they used to get into around Taft High School, and I thought to myself that they would be model citizens today.

[Basekamp]

, this is the ultimate vandalism. I mean, someone had to have had vengence on the mind.

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

(1) someone stuck our garden hose into a basement window box, flooding the rooms down there

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by Basekamp

, this is the ultimate vandalism. I mean, someone had to have had vengence on the mind.

Since there was a beer bottle left near the hose, I think it was one of the homeless people who routinely slept in the park getting a drink of water. We lived in a duplex-down, so it ruined a lot of our stuff. I woke up to an inch and a half of water under my bed at 6:00 a.m., and I rapid-fire cursed loudly enough to wake up the block.

[Basekamp]

I am thinking Mayor Daley's security camera plan might not be all bad... Did you get one of those flood vacuums and get it all out?

The positive side, is that you learned a new vengence technique should you ever need to use it...

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

Since there was a beer bottle left near the hose, I think it was one of the homeless people who routinely slept in the park getting a drink of water. We lived in a duplex-down, so it ruined a lot of our stuff. I woke up to an inch and a half of water under my bed at 6:00 a.m., and I rapid-fire cursed loudly enough to wake up the block.

[hank0604]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

Since there was a beer bottle left near the hose, I think it was one of the homeless people who routinely slept in the park getting a drink of water. We lived in a duplex-down, so it ruined a lot of our stuff. I woke up to an inch and a half of water under my bed at 6:00 a.m., and I rapid-fire cursed loudly enough to wake up the block.

That's one of the worst feelings in the world. The house I grew up in had a bad flooding problem. At least once a year, more often 3-4 times a year, the water in the garage would be about a foot deep, and the kitchen and dining rooms, on the lower level of the split level ranch home, would get about 12-18 inches of water in them. I remember being about 6 years old going to sneak a midnight snack, and finding myself almost swimming. Luckily though, we had flood insurance, so my parents usually made out like bandits after every storm.

Then when I was 13 I decided I would solve the problem, so I spent a couple days and dug a drainage ditch about 75 yards long. We didn't have any flooding problems after that, though the neighbors might have...

[Venom]

Cus the spikes at the top will kill you if you slip.

[Gelasia]

Originally Posted by Venom

Cus the spikes at the top will kill you if you slip.

Thats what I was hoping for!

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by aragx6

to keep hookers from doing their business in your basement -- at least that's what we need one for.

Do you live in the same building Lookout used to live in?