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• So yesterday I heard Pat McEnroe and J.A. Adande subbing in on PTI. Wasn't impressed. Not so much at J.A., but Pat was trying way too hard and coming up way too short. It felt like J.A. was just collateral damage.

• And this is why I don't bother to read fiction ... real life is so much better. Love the last paragraph. (Note: This article is a few months old.)

So a coyote walks into a Quiznos . . .

 

Sounds like the start of a joke.

 

It's not -- although dozens of downtown folks got a good laugh out of it Tuesday.

 

A male coyote really did wander into the Quiznos sandwich shop at Wabash and Adams -- in the Loop! -- just before 2 p.m. Tuesday. Workers had propped open the front door for the warm afternoon, and in sauntered the roughly 30-pound, 18-month-old wild animal.

 

"He probably smelled our prime rib," observed Bina Patel, 23, the shop's manager.

 

The coyote tried to nose his way past a small, swinging door that leads behind the counter, but worker Raymundo Zavala, 21, held his leg against the door.

 

Fellow worker Ronneshia Mukes, 19, screamed at the unwelcome guest and climbed onto the counter. The coyote then tried to jump over the counter, but he didn't make it.

 

The coyote found a seat on top of a stack of Diet Pepsi in an open cooler and settled in until an Animal Control worker arrived about 45 minutes later and safely removed him.

 

No one was hurt, although the coyote appeared to be bleeding slightly when he first walked in, workers said.

 

There were four customers in the shop when the coyote wandered in. Two left, but two stuck around to finish their chicken sandwiches. They took photos until a police officer shooed them away, Patel said. The officer didn't have far to go; he was at the Dunkin' Donuts next door.