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Late night New Orleans
Walk about three blocks past the circus atmosphere on Bourbon Street and you’ll find a few of NOLA’s gay bars.
Have a Coke and a smile and then get about 25 people laughing like hell near the check out area because the sight of those carts made sense to no one.
I was in Jewel-Osco tonight and I turned around because of an extra creaky sounding cart. I just started laughing out loud because it was so shocking. “What in the world are you doing there?”He was laughing harder than me. He said it was for a “pop party” His mom was laughing harder than anyone, but she didn’t want her picture taken. I asked one more time and he stuck with his pop party story, but winked. Coke was on sale, but no more so than any other store. He was hilarious dead-panning one moment and belly the laughing the next. I told him he could leave a three mile swath of kids with rotten teeth and their moms would chase him down.
Water garden and planetarium in Navy Pier
Water sculpture at Navy Pier
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The other one percent
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Did the airlines make a jumbo-jet-sized mistake by charging for checked bags?
I spent about 3O minutes speaking with a lead flight attendant for Delta Airlines. The major air names, American, Delta, United and U.S Airways charge $25 for a first checked bag.
The decision to charge has proved costly.
Passengers are stuffing more in their carry-on bags.
Fewer carry on bags now fit in the overhead compartments.
The bags that don’t fit have to be stowed for free in the luggage hold below.
There’s been an increase of lost bags because the temporary tagged bags are not fully integrated into the tracking system.
People don’t want their bags stowed below. They brought a carry-on for a reason.
Flight attendants are not paid a single cent until the plane moves away from the blocks. The increase in front end hassles is wearing thin on employees.
Finally, the process is delaying flights. Planes are not pushing back on time creating inevitable connection problems.
Those little antenna towers atop the John Hancock
To say the antenna atop the John Hancock building are stout is like saying water is wet. One is 30 stories tall, the other 25. Radio and TV stations across Chicago have a dish on one of these towers. Do not ask how I made it on the roof and asking me about climbing the first 50 feet of the tower is off the table completely. What’s good for me ain’t necessarily good for the weak minded.
Swan dive
Swan dive
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