All tales from Route 55

Huffin’ Paint

*This is my mom’s bus tale and it’s old but I still love it. On a sparsely populated bus from the first-ring western suburbs, a man gets on the bus on that stretch of Olsen Memorial Hwy immediately west of downtown. After a few minutes he takes out an empty soda can and starts huffing [...]


Man say “BAM!”

I don’t know if the LRT falls under the jurisdiction of Bus Tales (and if not, maybe it’s time for a Rail Tales companion site?), but my wife hears the best conversation on the Hiawatha line. She told me this bit of dialogue between two young men a while back, but it’s still stuck in [...]