Purgatory With Pantagraphs

From the depths of commuter hell, comes Purgatory with Pentagraphs. These are the continuing stories of the brave souls who commute daily to Chicago on the South Shore electric train, and the muggles who are unfortunate enough to meet them.

PWP, meet Chad

So there aren't many things that bring cheer to the commuters on the South Shore, especially in these days of overcrowding and seat stealing Gorditas. But recently we were blessed with the good fortune to have Our Ex-Favorite Conductor training an FNG to work as a collector on the South Shore.

Our Newbie was named Chad, and as the nice commuters that we are, we made sure that he got some real on the job training that he could use. Mostly it consisted of abusing Chad, and asking a bunch of stupid questions... Here are some examples...

-Asked for a one way ticket to Randolph Street... When the train was headed the other way.

-Asked him to roll down the windows to cool off the train, when all windows are sealed shut.

-Always made sure to shout out random numbers as he was walking by trying to count up the number of passengers in his cars.

-Asked at every single stop which doors would be letting passengers off, even the ones that were only pick up stops, and the stops when none of us were getting off.

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