Yesterday, Julie (lawschool friend) and Ryan (her boyfriend) came over to our house so that Julie and I could study and Cliff and Ryan could do whatever. Ryan and Cliff decided around 6pm to go to R +J's apartment in the city to let their dog out, so they could stay out later and go to a party at another friend's house. Julie and I stayed and studied more and planned to meet them at the party later.
Then we got a call about two hours later from the boys. They were parked on 90/94 outbound near 91st. Odd time and place for gridlock, we thought, so Julie and I looked it up. NewsRadio 780 was reporting that the lane closures were due to a "haz mat situation." Their website showed a little accident icon in the spot on the highway where the boys were, and when you hovered over it, it displayed the message: INCIDENT ALERT ALL LANES SHUT DOWN MEDIUM SEVERITY LEVEL.
Well, turns out it should have read EFFING CRAZY SEVERITY LEVEL. This was no over-turned tanker truck. In fact, there was nothing overturned at all. There was no accident. There was, however, a "suspicious package" found on the Red Line at 95th, so law enforcement shut down all lanes of traffic for more than an hour, and eventually started herding the cars off via on-ramps.
Poor guys. Ryan had to listen to most of the game in the car, and Cliff peed in a pop bottle. So when we got to the party, I wasn't too mad at Cliff when he showed me that he bought one of these:
http://crystalheadvodka.com/index.php?age=true
nice.
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