"My wife works for a job-placement agency and when they tell people the job is in Downtown Cincinnati they turn it down because of the high cost of parking."

 

I was more than a little pissed when I heard this one.

 

I wouldn't be. Temporary workers don't make much money, prospective jobs are scattered all around so it isn't likely to be on a convenient bus line from the employee's neighborhood.

Not in Columbus, but when in Louisville when talking to a couple of people we mentioned we were from Columbus and one responded, "...Ohio?" That stung a bit.

 

Columbus, Indiana is about an hour from Louisville. They probably get a lot of visitors from the CI.

Overheard in a coffee shop.

 

"Have you ever been to Cleveland?"

 

"Unfortunately."

 

A group of men were walking up High towards Spring Downtown during St. Patty's, "This place is dead."

 

To balance out the negative a girl who works at my gym was talking with someone about how she loves the Short North and how diverse it is compared to where she moved from.

It's not expensive, it's $2 at the Broadway Commons lot and many that are closer are $5 all-day if you get in before 9am. 

 

That's more expensive than what many suburbanites are willing to pay -- NOTHING!

 

My company's former general manager used to drive around downtown Cleveland looking for parking spaces. He wasn't just looking for available on-street parking, but spaces where parking meters still had time left on them! He absolutely refused to pay for parking, even though he was a pretty wealthy guy.

^I think about the only petty expense that irks people as much as paying for parking is ATM fees.  People have this attitude that "it's MY money", and dont' seem to care that the machine itself costs upward of $100,000 and that an armed guard has to be paid while it is serviced. 

And every bit of the money I put into my checking account goes into investments which they make money off of. Two dollars to take out money is a ripoff and if they didn't have ATM machines, banks would have to be open later and more branches would be needed so the reduction in overhead costs probably makes up for it. I despise bank fees. In my ideal world, banks would do the "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" thing when it comes to cross bank ATM transactions.

 

The biggest ripoff is western union. I got wired 1k and it cost 70 dollars. They wouldn't even give me any of it in cash; they printed out a check that I had to cash the next day. Western Union is where to go for funding terrorism and money laundering.

No they wouldn't have to be open later.  They didn't used to be open later before ATM's, or "Genie Machines" as they were known early on at least in my area.  You just had to go into the branch and get enough money for the weekend which was a big chore, people were always borrowing small amounts of money during the weekends.  I remember when there were only two ATM's in Colerain Township, one in the parking lot of the shopping center next to Jim's Auto Clinic on North Bend Rd. and the other at Northgate Mall.  There are probably upwards of 200 now.   

No they wouldn't have to be open later.  They didn't used to be open later before ATM's, or "Genie Machines" as they were known early on at least in my area.   You just had to go into the branch and get enough money for the weekend which was a big chore, people were always borrowing small amounts of money during the weekends.  I remember when there were only two ATM's in Colerain Township, one in the parking lot of the shopping center next to Jim's Auto Clinic on North Bend Rd. and the other at Northgate Mall.  There are probably upwards of 200 now.    

 

You're discounting the efficiency and convenience of 24/7 banking. Banks are usually not open in the evenings or weekends unless they're in the front end of a big box grocer. The economy does not stop at 6pm. Branch banks are able to focus on more important customer service issues besides withdrawal of petty cash which would hold up lines and require more labor. I don't know how it was in "your day" (the 90s) but today, even if you borrow money from someone, they're likely to get the money they're loaning you from an ATM as hardly anyone carries around a bunch of cash.

I don't recall the economy having a meltdown over lack of ATMs in the '80s. People carried a lot of cash, kept it at home or wrote checks. You could write checks for many more things back; bars kept tabs etc.

No meltdown but it was less efficient.

 

This should be moved to offtopic of flat out deleted. I just realized this is "I overheard someone in my city say..."

 

oops.

No meltdown but it was less efficient.

 

This should be moved to offtopic of flat out deleted. I just realized this is "I overheard someone in my city say..."

 

oops.

 

Or you guys could just replying like you are, but add "Today, O overheard someone in my city say ..." at the beginning of everything you say.

> I don't know how it was in "your day" (the 90s) but today, even if you borrow money from someone, they're likely to get the money they're loaning you from an ATM as hardly anyone carries around a bunch of cash.

 

I'm talking about the early 80's.  People didn't wear seatbelts, the gas had lead in it, there were 10 foot diving boards.  I think ATM's only handed out 20's and for some reason I think there was even a $20 limit or $40 at the most.  Anyone remember that?   

 

 

come on kids.

"I saw a guy wearing a Bearcat hat a year ago, and at first wondered to myself why he was wearing a Chic-fil-A hat."

 

-A guy from the office illustrating his lack of knowledge about any college outside of the SEC.

Said by a young couple as we were leaving the Feist concert at the Palace Theatre last night:

 

Him: "Wanna grab a drink?"

Her: "Where?"

Him: "I dunno, there's all kinds of places down here now - didn't use to be."

Her: "Can we walk to East 4th from here?"

Him: "You up for it?"

Her: "Sure!"

 

Had I heard this a few years ago, I'd have thought they were out of their minds.

 

awww.  Love in Spring!  Bah!

"If you're a lesbian you're going to want to make love to women."

 

 

Yesterday in downtown Cincinnati:

 

Woman 1: "Where did you get that purse?"

 

Woman 2: "My mother-in-law got it for me in Dubai".

"I saw a guy wearing a Bearcat hat a year ago, and at first wondered to myself why he was wearing a Chic-fil-A hat."

 

-A guy from the office illustrating his lack of knowledge about any college outside of the SEC.

 

Are you still in Atlanta? Oh, I despise my five years in SEC country.

An attorney in Mt. Adams: "There are racoons in those woods.  One summer I battled one"

"I saw a guy wearing a Bearcat hat a year ago, and at first wondered to myself why he was wearing a Chic-fil-A hat."

 

-A guy from the office illustrating his lack of knowledge about any college outside of the SEC.

 

Are you still in Atlanta? Oh, I despise my five years in SEC country.

 

Nope...I got back in Cincy at the end of March.

An attorney in Mt. Adams: "There are racoons in those woods.  One summer I battled one"

LOL. That's pretty funny.

An attorney in Mt. Adams: "There are racoons in those woods.  One summer I battled one"

 

I take it you were in Crowleys or the Pavilion or something when you heard that? LOL

Last night was crazy...there were people everywhere outside until about 2am.  Is that normal?

 

-A visiting baker (for the night) to the Calhoun Street Panera Bread.

 

Background:  This Panera location has storefront windows that look out onto Calhoun Street in Clifton Heights.  The bakers arrive at the store around 10pm and bake all night long leaving the next morning when a manager arrives.

So i am sitting in Real Estate Class and we are talking about the sub-prime mortgage fiasco and the question came up, where in the Cincinnati Metro, is the foreclosure rate the most apparent.

 

A normally very quiet girl raised her hand and said

 

" I am from West Chester, and my mom goes running every morning, every morning she counts the number of cars that are being taken by the repo man, she counts the number of houses that get forclosed and cars that get reposessed."

 

I almost started to cry  :cry:  :cry:  :cry: poor West Chester

I was in Algebra Teahouse this morning for breakfast and a young woman walked in who was exploring the Little Italy neighborhood.  After about 30 seconds of her standing in the doorway exclaimed "Wow...we don't have anything like this in Columbus!!"  It made me smile.

She sounds like my friend BuckeyeB who is from Columbus. He says those very same words when he comes here. But Columbus is still new to big city status and is still gathering various big-city amenities -- rail system, more high-rise apartment buildings, museum of the city's own history, etc.

Columbus has ethnic districts, they are just what are called "ethnoburbs" these days.  The Northland area (basically, an annexed Warrensville) has a large Somali population yet they are in 60's ranch houses and strip malls instead of in the old city.  I agree Columbus does not have an vibrant ethnic district in the heart of the old city due to rabid gentrification by mostly white suburbanites but as you say, it'll get there perhaps in the future.  That isn't to say that Columbus DIDN'T used to have a Little Italy (*cough* Italian Village *cough*).  They were just kicked out due to a Segway store.

"there is this cincinnati transit dot net site with all this cool information.  I have wasted more than one lunch break on that one" -random guy at the know theatre for fringe

I was at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Cleveland yesterday for a conference and got on the elevator with a family of five. I overhead them speaking French.

 

It seems Continental's new direct flight between Cleveland and Paris is starting to reel them in -- especially with the Euro-dollar exchange rate so much in their favor.

I noticed that in Chicago on the Miracle Mile not too long ago. Many more Europeans than Americans than in the past in many stores. I would be interested in that flight when and if I will be able to afford to go to Europe again. Although, Hopkins may  need to improve the customs service. I took Continental direct from London to Cleveland a few years ago and was stuck on the tarmack waiting for nearly 2 hours for a lone agent to show up so we could get off the plane. People on the flight were grousing this had been a reoccurring issue. Maybe it is better now.

"What are all these people doing down here?"

 

-Out of town guests (from Atlanta) commenting on the hoards of people that were out and about Downtown/Over-the-Rhine last night (Saturday, May 31st) around midnight.

 

 

 

"It sure is nice that Cincinnati has a smoking ban."

 

-Same guests commenting about how they were shocked that businesses in Nky allowed smoking inside.

"No catcalls today guys....you get in trouble for that here."

 

Construction foreman to his crew on the Euclid Corridor Project.

"No catcalls today guys....you get in trouble for that here."

 

Construction foreman to his crew on the Euclid Corridor Project.

 

Funny, I spend a lot of time on Euclid, and I've never heard a catcall....I have caught them ogling, but that's about it.

I haven't heard any either, but I had to laugh because it's such a cliche  scenario you see on t.v. alot.

 

Plus those guys have a whole pile of dirt, wet concrete, bricks and old drainage pipes to keep them occupied!!!

I haven't heard any either, but I had to laugh because it's such a cliche  scenario you see on t.v. alot.

 

Plus those guys have a whole pile of dirt, wet concrete, bricks and old drainage pipes to keep them occupied!!!

 

I was carrying an Arbys sandwich down Euclid the other day and the workers would just not leave me alone.

^lmao

^lol. nice

 

I didn't think people still actually catcalled...

I noticed that in Chicago on the Miracle Mile not too long ago. Many more Europeans than Americans than in the past in many stores. I would be interested in that flight when and if I will be able to afford to go to Europe again. Although, Hopkins may  need to improve the customs service. I took Continental direct from London to Cleveland a few years ago and was stuck on the tarmack waiting for nearly 2 hours for a lone agent to show up so we could get off the plane. People on the flight were grousing this had been a reoccurring issue. Maybe it is better now.

 

Two HOURS??  At Cleveland Hopkins?  Operations usually run very smoothly. I've never encountered that, that is excessive since that plane is needed to go elsewhere. 

^lol. nice

 

I didn't think people still actually catcalled...

 

You'd be surprised.

I noticed that in Chicago on the Miracle Mile not too long ago. Many more Europeans than Americans than in the past in many stores. I would be interested in that flight when and if I will be able to afford to go to Europe again. Although, Hopkins may  need to improve the customs service. I took Continental direct from London to Cleveland a few years ago and was stuck on the tarmack waiting for nearly 2 hours for a lone agent to show up so we could get off the plane. People on the flight were grousing this had been a reoccurring issue. Maybe it is better now.

it was HORRIBLE. I figured it was b/c they do not do a lot of international flights. Or at least first thing in the am. 

 

Two HOURS??  At Cleveland Hopkins?  Operations usually run very smoothly. I've never encountered that, that is excessive since that plane is needed to go elsewhere. 

I noticed that in Chicago on the Miracle Mile not too long ago. Many more Europeans than Americans than in the past in many stores. I would be interested in that flight when and if I will be able to afford to go to Europe again. Although, Hopkins may  need to improve the customs service. I took Continental direct from London to Cleveland a few years ago and was stuck on the tarmack waiting for nearly 2 hours for a lone agent to show up so we could get off the plane. People on the flight were grousing this had been a reoccurring issue. Maybe it is better now.

 

Two HOURS??  At Cleveland Hopkins?  Operations usually run very smoothly. I've never encountered that, that is excessive since that plane is needed to go elsewhere. 

 

it was HORRIBLE. I figured it was b/c they do not do a lot of international flights? I have no idea, but they kept blaming it on the fact that a customs agent (not plural) had not shown up

"No catcalls today guys....you get in trouble for that here."

 

Construction foreman to his crew on the Euclid Corridor Project.

 

Funny, I spend a lot of time on Euclid, and I've never heard a catcall....I have caught them ogling, but that's about it.

 

Oh believe me, I've NEVER once heard a catcall on Euclid from any construction workers - no matter how well I've put an outfit together. Now having a homeless guy* call me (I quote) "hey, sexy-@ssed n*****..." is an entirely different story.

 

*Obviously the homeless guy knows quality when he sees it! :-D

Racist!

Me or the homeless guy?!? HE was the one who threw out the "N" word*!!! :?

 

*He did use the pronunciation that rhymes with Tigga, for what it's worth.

Well, both of course.

OK girls, go powder your noses.

Me or the homeless guy?!? HE was the one who threw out the "N" word*!!! :?

 

I think ColDay was dryly humoring you.

OK girls, go powder your noses.

 

Go take the bus.

^transportionist!

Oh believe me, I've NEVER once heard a catcall on Euclid from any construction workers - no matter how well I've put an outfit together. Now having a homeless guy* call me (I quote) "hey, sexy-@ssed n*****..." is an entirely different story.

 

*Obviously the homeless guy knows quality when he sees it! :-D

 

You were wearing those $4.98 pants again, weren't you?!  LOL