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Thursday, December 12, 2002

Back in early October the city of Naperville put a giant color coded map of the city in the train station. It is mounted on foam core and must be over five feet tall and three feet wide! The purpose of the map is to show residents the leaf collection schedule for different neighborhoods. The last collection date on the map was sometime in mid-November. But no one bothered to remove the map. As you may or may not know, I LOVE maps and map collecting. So last night when we got off the train, we lingered around a bit until the crowd thinned, and then Sheri nabbed it. Yeah!

Also at the Naperville train station in the morning there is a man that we have nicknamed the Angry Wheelchair Guy. He goes whizzing by people and if they don’t move he comes close to crashing into them. On the ramp to get to the underground tunnel this morning he was really flying down the ramp. Probably just let the wheels go. About 20 feet from where the ramp intersects with the main walkway he grabs the wheels with his gloved hands and skids the rest of the way to a stop! His chair started to turn sideways a little bit, and a couple of people had to move to avoid getting hit. He just kept rolling. I have seen him on Chicago sidewalks before, and if people are standing in the curb cut-away ramp to get from the sidewalk to street level, he will just about crash into them. He must think that those were put there only for him and how dare anyone else walk there.

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