Taxi line dragons at ORD
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Taxi line dragons at ORD
Each taxi line at ORD has a sort of line monitor. I don't understand their purpose. You'd think they're there to get people's butts in taxis asap but they seem to spend most of their time SCREAMING at drivers over some infraction they seem to make up as they go while the line of people gets longer and longer. Sometimes the screaming escalates to the point that the monitor from the next line walks over to join the fray - leaving his/her line unattended.
Last edited by milepig; Oct 22, 2014 at 8:28 am
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I have a feeling you haven't had the pleasure of interacting with enough CoC employees to understand this is the norm.
I have a feeling you haven't had the pleasure of interacting with enough CoC employees to understand this is the norm.
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...while emphatically demanding I turn right NOW NOW NOW - which if I followed their demand would then hurtle me right into a clutch of walkers legally crossing with the light.
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I live on Lake Shore Dr. near Wrigley. Every morning and evening, the rush hour traffic on Lake Shore local moves very smoothly without any assistance from the "traffic control" idiots. Yet when there is a Cubs game, these idiots manage to create complete gridlock. It's not uncommon to get stuck for several light cycles in a line of cars that can't move through an intersection because it's completely blocked by cross traffic -- which can't move because the intersection a block away has been blocked by cross traffic. I wish they'd eliminate these idiots altogether. [/vent]
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