# I get to ride the El! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 29, 2001, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-to-ride-the-el/78714 "2001-08-29T15:23:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-to-ride-the-el/78714/1 "2001-08-29T15:23:23Z")
Friday I get to ride Chicago’s world famous El train! I get to take the blue line from O’Hare to Rosemont, then wait for a bus to take me to Woodfield Mall, where it’s lunch with the lovely, and Jewish (and very proud of it!) **Miss Creant**. Perhaps a little shopping, too. Then I get to try to mosey my way over to the area of Chief O’Niell’s, where I shall hook up with the lovely waitress **Beth**. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-to-ride-the-el/78714/2 "2001-08-29T23:25:07Z")
be sure to check out the man hole covers. i understand they are painting them. van gogh and someone else i can’t think of right now. goodness, green river, cows, and now man hole covers. chicago, chicago, that’s a happening town. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-to-ride-the-el/78714/3 "2001-08-29T23:31:03Z")
As I posted in the other thread, I am free this whole weekend. If you care to take me up on it, I would be happy to catch up with you at Woodfield anytime after ummm…5:45 or so and give you a lift to Chief O’Neill’s. Email me to discuss. **MikeG** Official ChiDope Chauffeur. ---
**Author:** ![Ell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@Ell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ell)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-to-ride-the-el/78714/4 "2001-08-29T23:43:13Z")
Oh no you don’t! ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-to-ride-the-el/78714/5 "2001-08-30T03:48:25Z")
> [@](#): > > blue line from O’Hare to Rosemont That will be a solid 35 seconds of track between the lanes of the Kennedy. Not quite the watershed L experience. You really need to jump the Brown line from Wrigleyville and cruise down to the loop, then shoot back up the Red line to Wrigley Field. Now thats a L ride. Of course its just mass transit…not exactly a vacation experience. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-to-ride-the-el/78714/6 "2001-08-30T12:59:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rocking chair \* > \*\*be sure to check out the man hole covers. \*\* Oh, no. I’m staying away from _anything_ named “Manhole.” ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-to-ride-the-el/78714/7 "2001-08-30T13:45:53Z")
Hey, **Super** , are you sure you don’t want to ride the E? 😉 “Manhole: Your hole is our hole.” Whata town. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-to-ride-the-el/78714/8 "2001-08-30T14:08:56Z")
**MikeG** : You have mail. **ts** : You dork :). You know you’re the only person who can “plunge my pipes,” as it were. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-to-ride-the-el/78714/9 "2001-08-30T14:29:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Superdude \* > \*\ ***MikeG** : You have mail. > > **ts** : You dork :). You know you’re the only person who can “plunge my pipes,” as it were. \*\* Eeewww! Stop, you two! Now I have to go scrub my brain. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-to-ride-the-el/78714/10 "2001-08-30T15:56:08Z")
Hehehehehehe ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-to-ride-the-el/78714/11 "2001-08-30T23:02:45Z")
oh sure, i tell you to look for great art under your feet and y’all turn it into something lewd and tawdry. what was i thinking?!?