Lifestyle The 27 Worst Decisions You Can Make in Chicago

Normally you make great life choices: you spring for extra bacon, you know your "L" stop's quickest exit, and you pick the exact bar where the tamale guy shows up. But occasionally you're not at your finest, and you make one of these 27 worst possible Chicago decisions ever:

1. Falling asleep while riding the "L" Next stop: someone yelling you awake.

2. Asking for a "chocolate shake" at The Wieners Circle It’s not what you think it is, unless you're thinking of char dog-quality boobs.

3. Coming into contact with Chicago River water It doesn't matter how convincing your buddies are post-Lollapalooza.

4. Hitting Rock N Roll McDonald’s after last call Nightclub crowds don't do well with florescent lighting, orderly lines, and places where you're not to supposed to shout at each other like gibbons.

5. Moving into a building without a laundry room Plan to stretch that "clean" underwear up until Spring.

6. Winding up in a 4am bar Bad decisions abound.

7. Comcast 8. Leaving your expensive Chicago Fire Festival floats out in the rain before you plan to burn them Arson can't possibly be that difficult.

9. Divvying onto an expressway This is stillhappening. Don't be that guy (or girl).

10. Neglecting your long-term memory as a Cubs fan 2014: Joe Maddon’s gonna change eeeeeeeeeverything! 2006: Lou Piniella’s gonna change eeeeeeeeeverything! 2003: Dusty Baker’s gonna change eeeeeeeeeverything!

11. Renting a garden unit apartment You've ignored the red flags and what you saved in rent you’ll make up for with flood damage, permanent shade, and the cavalcade of unwelcome sidewalk noises.

12. Parking Downtown Aka paying the ransom our city owes to a company in Abu Dhabi.

13. Starting a tab in a Wrigleyville bar You will forget your card. If only you could forget what went on inside that country bar.

14. Accidentally getting on the Purple Line Express "I swear that train’s sign was brown just a second ago!"

15. Arguing that NYC is superior to Chicago in any way It’s an island of rats eating stale pretzels led by new ambassador Taylor Swift.

16. Thinking the polar vortex was dead and buried It’s the Michael Myers of weather patterns.

17. Getting that late-night slice of Bacci Pizza Have some self respect.

18. Thinking City Hall was really going to refund tampered red light tickets Hahahahahaha.

19. Counting on any form of transportation on New Year’s Eve Your DD will go incommunicado, public transit will be covered in puke/people about to puke, and car share rates will be in the triple digits. When you do flag down a cab, someone will be there steal it.

20. Dating someone in the suburbs This isn't going to work out.

21. Failing to notice that sign for rush hour parking "I wonder why there are so many spots available?!"

22. Entering Lakeview during TBOX/Pride/Cubs games Do not follow that trail of cereal/beads/Anthony Rizzo bobbleheads.

Sean Cooley