# Incident on a Chicago Bus

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incident-on-a-chicago-bus/914498>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [July 6, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incident-on-a-chicago-bus/914498 "2020-07-06T16:03:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incident-on-a-chicago-bus/914498/1 "2020-07-06T16:03:12Z")

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I debated with myself whether this was a Mundane type of thread but knowing the Board’s sensitivities, I opted to put this in Politics.

I was riding the 151 bus through Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood, a stretch known for its geriatric population, when at a stop, the bus driver called out, “Look, there’s a Trump Supporter right there!”

I tell you, everybody pressed their faces to the windows as if the driver had said, “There’s a kangaroo there.” Everybody was like ‘Lemme see, lemme see, where?!’

Sure enough, there was a little old man in shorts with fragile knobby knees, wearing a bright red MAGA hat. To his credit, he wore a clear face shield.

And folks on the bus turned back to each other and tried to outdo each other with “Don’t get me started”,.

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incident-on-a-chicago-bus/914498/2 "2020-07-06T17:23:21Z")

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People are funny.

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**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incident-on-a-chicago-bus/914498/3 "2020-07-06T23:17:53Z")

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Yeah, we Trump supporters in Chicago have been hunted darned near to extinction, but there’s still a few of us left. That wasn’t me, by the way.

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**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incident-on-a-chicago-bus/914498/4 "2020-07-07T02:11:01Z")

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Do you have better knees?

I swear, I love my city. Especially when we act like a bunch of gawking rubes.

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**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incident-on-a-chicago-bus/914498/5 "2020-07-07T06:30:30Z")

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I have awesome knees. They are my second favorite organs.