If you've ridden the Chicago El before regularly... or probably even once... you've had the experience of seeing or hearing a special kind of crazy. You know, some person acting so outside the acceptable range of behavior for 100 people packed inside a small place that its the first thing you tell your friends or family about when you get to your destination.
So I was on the El last week, and this guy was just screaming into his phone. So loud that I made eye contact with the person across from me and we both just started laughing. I've been taking harmonica lessons, so I promise to record an arrangement. and as I listened to him rant on the phone, I realized he was giving me some perfect blues lyrics. I took out my phone and started typing them out:
Everything has done gone bad!
Can ya hear me?
Everything has done gone bad!
Huh!
Huh!
Everything.
Everything!
I'm on the train!
Huh! can ya hear me?
Everything has done gone bad!
You said to mind my business.
Listen! I don't think she has no money.
Huh!
Hay!
Hey man how you been doin!
Huh!
Is'nt it amazing where a person came come across inspiration? Nice job at taking something so annoying and trying to do something positive with it. Well done.
Mary.
Posted by: Mary Trett | November 16, 2009 at 12:34 PM