CTA Tattler

Unwanted serenade

Some friends shared this Red Line tale with me over the weekend. It seems the family of three were on a Red Line outing. The dad was seated a few seats ahead of his wife and daughter, who were in one of the seats facing each other by the door.

A big, homeless-looking guy came on the train, singing a song. When he spied the pretty 15-year-old daughter, he sat across the girl and started singing directly to her, in a flirting manner.

Her dad was not at all pleased by this turn of events. He got up, moved down the aisle and stood between the two of them. Finally, "Frank Sinatra" got the hint, and looked up at him and said, "Are you her Dad?"

The dad sternly said, "Yes I am!"

"Frank" muttered, "Oh jeez, sorry."

Then he turned to the teen's mom sitting beside her and said, "Are you her mother?" She nodded yes.

"Oh man, I'm outta here," he exclaimed and jumped off at the next stop.

My friends are a mixed race couple, and you have to look real closely at their daughter to notice her resemblance to them.