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AM Commute: train pulls up to station. Dude (non-cta employee) has head out of window of a car towards the back (one of the conductor stations) just singing nonsense at top of lungs. It was like a dog in a moving car. I got on that car anyways.

We pull up to Belmont, he closes the window politely, and catches red line transfer.

PM commute: Dude either changes mind or just got on wrong side of station. Decided "Fuck going all the way down, crossing the street, and going back up" and proceeds to lower self onto tracks, crossed over, getting too close to both 3rd rails for my tastes, and lifts himself up to other side.

In 20 years of riding the CTA, I've never seen either. Those cuts to Medicaid already impacting mental health services?