Advice For Being Alone

An email that I got today from a drinking companion last night:

How to clear a path on the el car in three easy steps:

• Show up to the platform possibly inebriated, definately not altogether there.
  
  
• Show up to said platform in said condition wearing the coat you wore in a smoky bar for eight hours.
  
  
• Get on train and proceed to chuckle and murmur while reading how an alderman got busted trying to get a bribe for property across the street from her ward boundary while bobbing head to Metallica.
  

Been there, done that.