Sounds familiar but can't seem to find the article on google or in this subreddit. It's wild.

Yeah I remember constantly seeing dudes on the el with them and even at lights, like at passyunk and vare

There used to be a turtle trap house somewhere near like 21st and federal that got shut down years ago that apparently supplied most of them, didn't realize they came back.

someone mentioned you but didn't tag you, oddly.

paging our resident vexillologist /u/simon_the_cannibal who has had serious thoughts about this for years

> Considering this poor little dude probably came from a legitimate exotic animal dealer at some point I imagine tracking down the idiot in question shouldn’t be that difficult.

I can show you where they put the serial number, but that'll cost extra.

Yeah it's less of a go out of your way to be nice and more of a what's good acknowledgement.

Crossing the street is meh unless it's a group of like 13 year olds. Any mixed group of 13 year olds is insane anywhere on the planet.

Also if you haven't, learn what a trap house looks like. Was able to get some good looks by knowing what was going on and nipping any issues about why I was there in the bud. A few times that favor was returned by them telling me I should take a walk for a few hours or something if a shipment was late.

They run promos during lulls. I remember seeing something similar last year in february.

As far as I remember there wouldn't be total closure, which would be a nightmare.

Maybe temporarily overnight.

Chestnut hill is relatively sleepy and has a lot of families. Conshy proper is a much younger/livelier place. You'll be taking a regional rail if you wanted to get to center city either way.

I often do work in those neighborhoods (civil engineering) on foot for 8ish hours at a time.

>I dress down (jeans and a hoodie), stay off my phone, mind my business, etc. I don't want to be overly-paranoid but I also don't want to be naive. I'm a fairly large guy so perhaps that helps, but any tips? Or am I being nervous for nothing?

Absolutely normal to make sure you're not being totally oblivious on your phone and the like, just like basically anywhere else. If you're going to be working in the same few places there's probably gonna be some guys outside you should say hi to if you're going to be working in close proximity. Vest/hardhat and clipboard help, but obviously not required if that's not part of your job.

Generally people don't want issues.

The base one-way fare between NYC and Philly is $19. If you're booking early enough you'll see those on the northeast regional.

Eh, it often mirrors public sentiment. There's a major disconnect between the speed at which people think things can happen and the speed at which they do happen, especially with young people.

I'd go find some examples but I'm lazy. If you look at all the other threads there's a lot of very flippant impatience.

Yeah, it's gonna be routing a lot of people down delaware ave.

Every time there's an update on this people are like "just fuckin build it already" as if it's not a major infrastructure project.

I think I did the data collection and analysis for rerouting traffic during staging/construction like 6 years ago at this point. This project is massive because it touches 95 and people don't realize it.

> Both spots are welcoming to kids.

Great for when kids are running underneath the dartboard.

Or were, I think they canned that.

The Jim is a hilariously incestuous industry bar. I saw like 8 of my local bartenders there.

Good place to catch some free drinks if you tip well elsewhere.

half of my day is spent closing windows

the other day 5 of 8 windows were open. it was 40 out.

Yeah I have like 15 of them around so it's not a big deal. I should honestly probably just get an air purifier.

someone in my house has the windows open 24/7, even in the winter

I just changed my HVAC filter last night and it was bright green. I think I replaced it last in like december.

their handle tells you all you need to know

On monday I saw an unfortunate SEPTA worker sweeping up all the cans in the subway and muttering to himself. There's trashcans literally everywhere at platform level.