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I take the Express Bus to work, and, in the morning, I get on it on an earlier stop. Try to imagine how the seats fill up.  There are a bunch of two seater benches.  At first, one person sits in each bench.  Then once there is a person on every bench, people start to take up the second of the two-seaters, right?

 Well, I absolutely hate people who sit on the inside of the two seats (towards the aisle) just so there is more chance that no one will sit next to them.  They make people ask them to move over, and they always give that nasty glance.  Who the heck do they think they are?! 

Do people notice this?  If you notice these jerks, please take note!  If you do this stuff, we are catching on to you, and you should be ashamed of yourself.

What's with that beautiful park in front of the Museum of Science?  When wil it ever open?  I see it every day from the Green Line, and it always has those stupid fencing around them. I am running out of patience.  I did do a little research, and look what I found:

Their website says, the park "is slated to for completion in the summer of [...wait for it...] 2006".

http://www.masspike.com/bigdig/updates/spring0627.html

But wait!!!  Groundbreaking had already happened.  They even have a beautiful diagram! Hooray....?! 

http://www.rwinters.com/northpointpark.htm 

Oh, wait, this website even has finished photos.  What an awesome view of the blooming flowers and the Zakim Bridge...They open when?!!! May of...2006?  Didn't 2006 happen like before 2007?

http://www.masspike.com/bigdig/multimedia/photo_may06.html 

Alright, let me get this out.  In fact, I am sure this isn't limited to bus 57, but that's the one I ride on.  These buses are supposed to come every 6~7 minutes.  Are you frickin' kidding me?  There is no way this is true.  I generally wait at least 10 minutes, sometimes 20 minutes.  ...and of course, when one shows up, it is completely full, and most of the time I can't get on.  Then I wait another 10 minutes, then LOOK!!  THREE OF THEM SHOW UP IN A ROW!

Another gripe that I have is that there is NO WAY that there are as many buses on the streets as they say there are.  I honestly don't think there are enough buses to cover all the scheduled stops.  Nope, there's no way.

When I get laid off from my work for being late too many times, I plan to sit outside my house at a bus stop and actually count the # of buses.  I am extremely curious as to what I find out. 

Did I hear that there will be another price hike for MBTA?  Apparently MBTA's debt is now 8.1 Billion Dollars, and they are faced with another decision to take out loans farther putting them in the hole or...get this...increase the fare by 38%.  This means that a T ride will increase to $2.35, and this is on top of the recent hike from 1.25 to 1.75.  Oh, my gosh, I still remember when the T was $0.75.  (I also remember when the gasoline was $0.79/gallon, but that's a whole another story.

Why does my computer have to tell me this with that huge annoying bubble in the lower right-hand corner every time it loses my wireless network and reconnects again??

I feel like I need to praise my computer when it does that.  Why, thanks, little fella'!!!  Keep up the great work!!  You're doin' just dandy!!!

It's like the 5 year old who goes to town on his construction paper with a box of crayons and then brings it home to show Mommy, so proud, so hoping that she'll find it worthy of the refrigerator door... 

So I'm driving home the other day, listening to WBZ's traffic on the 3's.  You know how they have "Joe Morgan and the BZ copter".  Well, apparently sometime in the last few weeks it changed to "Joe Morgan and the Commerce Insurance BZ copter."!!!!!  What, did Commerce Insurance build the helicopter?  Is that what we are supposed to believe?????

I've never been a fan of big corporations buying naming rights to things, but it's getting ridiculous.  Everything has some corporate sponsor now.  When they play a replay on TV it's the "Chevy Trucks" replay or something.  Lojak has their "Caught stealing" thing during red sox games (at least that one is clever).  

What's next? Are they going to start buying naming rights to every day objects? 

"Thank you for using this Microsoft™ toilet!  Have a nice day!" 

"This Traveler's Insurance™ parking meter requires 50 cents to proceed.  Have a nice day!"

In the shower?

"Warning: this E*Trade™ bar of Soap is nearly gone!!  Hurry out and buy more!!!"

"Welcome to your shower!  Don't forget to use your special Toyota™ faucet knob to turn on the shower!!  Come to our president's day sale!!!" 

Hell, how about naming rights to stores?

"Thanks for shopping at this  TD Banknorth™ Kmart!  Have a nice day!"

"Welcome to the Bank of America™ Apple Store!  Have a nice day!"

Most people would know better than to ask.  I think you learn it pretty early on in life - never ask a woman if she's pregnant.  That lesson apparently escaped my assistant.  I took a sick day from work, legitimately staying home with what would turn out to be the worst cold I've had in years.  I was working from my couch, however, and emailing back and forth with my assistant.  Suddenly, out of nowhere she emails "are u pregnant?"  For starters, let me preface this rant with the fact that I was not offended (truth be told, I really am pregnant though, at the time, I hadn't even told my family because it was so early on).  What astounded me and pisses me off is that she felt totally justified in asking!  Let's review the plethora of reasons why you don't ask this question:

--maybe I'm pregnant/maybe I'm not
--maybe I'm keeping it/maybe I'm not
--maybe it's my husband's/boyfriend's/maybe it's not
--maybe I've been trying and am not having luck
--maybe I just lost the baby
--maybe I'm barren and will never have children

 When I pointed out to her that it was an inappropriate question, she was basically like "I was just ready to congratulate you if you were."  Like it was no big deal because she had good intentions.  Let this be known to all who wonder about a co-worker - you are not allowed to ask regardless of your suspicions.  She will tell you when she's darn good and ready (usually waiting until she absolutely can't hide it from her employer anymore) and she sure as hell will not make her big announcement over the office email!!!  So keep your suspicions to yourself and your big mouth shut.