Do not be too hard on the cashier. The City of Chicago does not know what state it is in. It believes it is in the state of "Chicagoland" and that nothing else exists outside of its borders that matters remotely.
(And technically, "Chicagoland" stretches over into "the Region" of Indiana and it is creeping into south eastern Wisconsin.)
Yes it is, and I'm so, so very happy that "Chicagoland" is where I was born and raised. Give me the cold and snow over this Atlanta heat any day. Well, not today exactly, but the summer months, yes.
There is a regional joke that people in the Houston, TX area have about Dallas, similar to Scope's earlier comment. Dallas is such a sprawling metropolis that we often affectionately refer to such peripheral boundaries as, say, Denver, or perhaps Huntsville (TX, north of Houston) to be on the fringes of "greater Dallas." Nuff said. -Diane
Scope: Fine, but can I at least feel disgust that after I told him it was in Illinois he didn't know how to abbreviate it - he was typing it in as LI. Lillinois?
Joshua: Ahhh! Another Chicagoan. I'll be joining your club soon. :-)
Diane: We do the same thing in Seattle. EVERYTHING falls under the blanket of "Seattle." Except Tacoma of course. *Gag*
SkyDad: *pat in head* Yes. Yes, it is. Now run along. ;-)
Candy: My pleasure!
Soda & Candy: Exactly *grumble*
Callista: Because I asked him if there are HT's in Chicago and he didn't know. He tried to look it up on the computer for me but had to ask me which state it was in. When I said Illinois, he didn't know how to spell it nor abbreviate it. He actually asked me to step behind the register with him and help him look it up. It was most sad. He looked to be about 30 years old!
Veggie: And I've heard people butcher the name of my state by calling it "Warshington" - where'd the R come from?!
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Do not be too hard on the cashier. The City of Chicago does not know what state it is in. It believes it is in the state of "Chicagoland" and that nothing else exists outside of its borders that matters remotely.
(And technically, "Chicagoland" stretches over into "the Region" of Indiana and it is creeping into south eastern Wisconsin.)
Yes it is, and I'm so, so very happy that "Chicagoland" is where I was born and raised. Give me the cold and snow over this Atlanta heat any day. Well, not today exactly, but the summer months, yes.
-Joshua
There is a regional joke that people in the Houston, TX area have about Dallas, similar to Scope's earlier comment. Dallas is such a sprawling metropolis that we often affectionately refer to such peripheral boundaries as, say, Denver, or perhaps Huntsville (TX, north of Houston) to be on the fringes of "greater Dallas." Nuff said. -Diane
Is Chicago in the US?
I'm soooo cracking up over the comments you left at my blog today...
Words and the airplane...hilarious!!!
Thanks for playing, babe!
Hahahahahahaha.
Kids today. Harrumph.
Chicago? Never heard of it.
And how did that come up in conversation at HT?
What uneducated cretins. Who doesn't know where the state of Milwaukee is?
What??? Having said that, I talked to a woman once who pronounced it "Illi-NOISE" What the eff, lady?
Peach: Thanks!
Scope: Fine, but can I at least feel disgust that after I told him it was in Illinois he didn't know how to abbreviate it - he was typing it in as LI. Lillinois?
Joshua: Ahhh! Another Chicagoan. I'll be joining your club soon. :-)
Diane: We do the same thing in Seattle. EVERYTHING falls under the blanket of "Seattle." Except Tacoma of course. *Gag*
SkyDad: *pat in head* Yes. Yes, it is. Now run along. ;-)
Candy: My pleasure!
Soda & Candy: Exactly *grumble*
Callista: Because I asked him if there are HT's in Chicago and he didn't know. He tried to look it up on the computer for me but had to ask me which state it was in. When I said Illinois, he didn't know how to spell it nor abbreviate it. He actually asked me to step behind the register with him and help him look it up. It was most sad. He looked to be about 30 years old!
Veggie: And I've heard people butcher the name of my state by calling it "Warshington" - where'd the R come from?!
SkyDad: I meant "*pat ON head*" there. Just clarifying. ;-)
Wait, you mean, Chicago isn't a state?!
Oh my goodness... that is terrible.
Dear cashier
She's right.
You suck.
Get a map, dude.
Or, look at your DRIVERS LICENSE!
That's why he's working at Hot Topic at 30 years old.
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