Re: Cracked Out Real Life Conversations
From when I first moved to Chicago:
Me: Does EVERY street here have a north, south, east, or west distiction?
Hostel worker: Yes. It works like this: State Street divides east and west, Madison Street divides north and south. The numbers get higher depending on how far away a block is from those streets. One block out is 100 north or south, two is 200, and so on. I know it's very confusing at first -
Me: Confusing?! That actually makes perfect sense!
Needless to say, I've never been hopelessly lost in Chicago.
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We despise all reverences and all the objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
Mark Twain
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