#84214 - 01/28/07 06:23 PM
Practice scenario: Chicago
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Old Hand
Registered: 12/14/05
Posts: 988
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Heres the drill:
You're in Chicago, at work 21 miles from home ( 33.5 km). Your first and second choices for transportation are unavailable. How do you get home?
For advanced students, its winter, during a blizzard and you've lost your wallet.
Go.
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#84215 - 01/28/07 06:46 PM
Re: Practice scenario: Chicago
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Registered: 03/18/06
Posts: 1032
Loc: The Netherlands
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Guess I'll have to swim back to the Netherlands since the plane and boat are unavailable... <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
Edited by JIM (01/28/07 06:47 PM)
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#84216 - 01/28/07 07:02 PM
Re: Practice scenario: Chicago
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Registered: 03/31/06
Posts: 1355
Loc: United Kingdom.
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SWIM? SWIM? Build a raft my child, or a 747 out of duct tape and paracord.... <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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#84217 - 01/28/07 10:11 PM
Re: Practice scenario: Chicago
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Registered: 11/25/06
Posts: 742
Loc: MA
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21 miles, huh? Tell work, as I'm leaving, that I won't be in tomorrow, take a week off, claim I got lost walking home <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Ok, now the serious answer; depending on the time, I may actually attempt the walk. In a blizzard, nope. Find a YMCA, or a bus/train station, and hole up till the AM. Without a wallet, in the cold, you just gotta suffer through the night. Besides, it'll make for a great story when you go back to work. In a week <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
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#84219 - 01/28/07 11:04 PM
Re: Practice scenario: Chicago
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stranger
Registered: 04/02/06
Posts: 16
Loc: 100 yds from elkhorn creek
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IF the blizzard is so bad it is shuting down transportation, i would stay at work. Using the emergancy money in my locker to put in some more food. And stay where i am, oh and bill them for extra hours i am there.
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#84220 - 01/29/07 12:04 AM
Re: Practice scenario: Chicago
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I am not a P.P.o.W.
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Registered: 05/16/05
Posts: 1058
Loc: Finger Lakes of NY State
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I'd be holing up are my office where I have a stash of emergency supplies (I have a well stocked BOB locked in a file drawer in my current office, with >>>), and extra cash, ATM card, and Credit card. Extra winter clothes and a toilet kit are on the coat coat hooks in a corner of my office. [Besides my stocked Yukon is less than 100 feet from the building! <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />.] People know where I am, I know the area. Hunker down and wait till transportation is available, or someone can get to me. Walking 21 miles in cold Chicago temps and a blizzard is far harder than walking 21 miles on a warm spring day.
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#84221 - 01/29/07 01:44 AM
Re: Practice scenario: Chicago
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Geezer
Registered: 09/30/01
Posts: 5695
Loc: Former AFB in CA, recouping fr...
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Not making light of your scenario, but I have been in Chicago in the winter, and I ain't going back again, never ever...
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#84222 - 01/29/07 01:11 PM
Re: Practice scenario: Chicago
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Newbie
Registered: 12/19/06
Posts: 39
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1st choice: Car 2nd choice: Bus
Choices: Subway: Depends on where you live and if a terminal is near you. Cab: Unless this counts as a car. Walk: If you walk at a hurry, 4 mph, you can get home in about 6 hours. Bum a ride from a neighbor or co-worker. Go to a resturant that delivers and order some food to get delivered at your house and bum a ride with the driver for an extra tip.
But if you don't have to get home stay at work or get a hotel room.
Advanced:
Call the police to pick you up because they can't let you freeze to death in the cold.
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#84223 - 01/29/07 04:24 PM
Re: Practice scenario: Chicago
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Geezer
Registered: 09/30/01
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"...Go to a resturant that delivers and order some food to get delivered at your house and bum a ride with the driver for an extra tip..."
Now THAT is an intersting idea. I suspect that most places would have a "no riders" policy, but it would be worth trying.
Re calling the police, I can just about guarantee you that all they might do would be to take you to a "place of safety," like an all night diner or something. They would politely (maybe) inform you that they are not a taxi...
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