>>One of the things I don't miss is standing on an "L" platform, totally exposed to the wind, hoping that a train might come sometime soon.:-)
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>My last winter there, I was mostly working from home. On those few days I had to go to the office, I'd dutifully bundle up with the heavy coat, scarf, hat, gloves, and hit the street with EVERY INTENTION of walking the two blocks to the "L" and waiting for a train.
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>As soon as that first arctic blast off the lake hit my face, my hand went in the air all on its own and I was hailing a taxi. <g>

I once was working in NYC for a company with an office in Houston. Whenever someone from Houston came in winter, he always had the most ill-fitting overcoat you could imagine. If finally dawned on me that it was the same "office" overcoat.