heads up

If you are headed downtown with a friend and you aren't feeling well, and you stop at Wal-Greens for some sicky treats (airborne, vitamin C, sprite, kleenex) and you decide to take the airborne quick before you get to the Art Institute please heed this warning:

If you are going to put the airborne in your sprite, you should drink a LOT of it before dropping it in. Just drinking a little of the sprite will not suffice. The sprite will overflow onto the street and you will look like a crazy person. People might walk by and say "put a mento in there, huh?" To which you will give them a crazy look and end up asking questions like: "do we look like boys? in junior high?"
(Quote taken from an email from Lynn Lanier)

It will make the day better when you have to squeeze through a tiny Caribou full of the people that just saw your pop exploding everywhere to get some napkins, that have the saying "It's going to be a very long day" on them.

It was actually quite a marvelous day. The exploding pop probably added to the excitement. I did apologize to the streets of Chicago. Although I do know that worse has happened, like when I was walking downtown with some friends and the guy in front of us veered to the side and paused for a quick urniation.