The Power of Al

Our second day in Chicago begun just as our first, by figuring out how to get to the place that I wanted to eat brunch at. Al was adamant about walking as much as we had the day before. I prefer to walk, but it was on the very cold side, so we bought 2 day passes for the L. In no time we were at Lou Mitchell's and the food was just as good as I remembered it.

The cultural part of the day was the Chicago art museum. Initially were were happy when we found out that it was free to get in, however, it turned out that many of the exhibits were closed for refurbishment. On top of that the museum was packed. Still, most of my favorites were represented, Picasso, Munch, Monet and Van Gogh to name a few.

Al wanted to see another movie and I tricked him into seeing Atonement. I felt like it was only fair because he had picked the movie the night before. I don't think that Al felt that way.

When we were walking a seated couple was refusing to move over for another couple despite the fact that they had an empty seat on either side of them. Al wanted us to just take the separate seats. I started asking Al a bunch of questions trying to be as annoying as possible, thinking they would just move to get rid of the annoyance. That didn't work so I started texting Al to complain about how annoying and rude those people were.

Al – Look, I know that you had a problem moving before, but she's just going to keep texting and bugging me, do you mind moving over?

Nasty Rude Guy – I can't believe this, whatever.

After the movie (it was really good) the couple that was sitting to the right of me asked how Al had done it. Apparently several different couples had tried and they had refused. There's no one answer, it was just the power of Al.