Nonsenical blathering, like clockwork
Filling out Crazies Week at CTA Tattler, let me highlight this reader contribution. (Share yours here):
"I get off the Blue Line at Clark & Lake every day at about 8:45, sometimes 8:50 in the morning. There is a guy that sits about an aisle deep, in the window, on the right side of the first car, every day, and begins his nonsensical blathering about everything that he hates around the halfway point between the Chicago and Grand stops, every day, which is usually the same thing.
"I've been known to get on at the Cumberland stop on occasion so I know he is on the train for a while. He is a black guy in his mid-50s with an almost George Clinton style of dress. He has what appears to be a modified top hat and begins his same spiel, same time, same place, every GD day."
There's nothing like the regulars on the CTA.
A couple of years ago, on the RedLine, there was this guy singing nonsense. When asked to stop, he insisted he was Moslem and it was time to pray. Somehow his 'prayer' ending with the theme song to The Beverly Hillbillies.
Posted by: Cheryl | May 11, 2006 at 10:59 AM
Does he carry a white duffel bag w/ an American flag on it? If so, I saw him for the first time today. Had a jeans jacket on. I sat right facing him on the Red Line at about 9:00 today. I don't know how many mid-50's George Clinton-lookin' black men riding the El there are in Chicago.. but yeah..
But he was dead silent. Thought he was gonna be crazy, but dead silent.
Posted by: underscorebleach | May 12, 2006 at 11:34 AM