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I am not sure if this is universal or limited to Boston pedestrians, but, while I am driving, it bugs the marbles out of me to see people who walk up to a crosswalk, press the button to change the light, and just continue to walk straight into the road without waiting for a green.  What is this all about?  It's complete inefficiency of this modern world.

If they aren't going to wait at all, why do they press the button?  What goes on in their heads? Here are my attempts to answer this mystery:

- They are hoping the light would change instantly...but then, since it didn't change during the few seconds while they walked from the button to the side of the road, they gave up and proceeded to walk into the road.

- They like hearing the "cuck-oo, cuck-oo" sounds.

- They like pressing any buttons they see in the public.  (Which I can kind of relate.) 

- They are swinging their arms to swat a bee and accidentally press the button.

- They have no clue what the button is for but have always wondered what it would do.

- They pressed the button as a good samaritan for the gaggle of children following along. 

Have people noticed that the street parking spots turn into valet spots in downtown?  This happens all over Financial District and Back Bay.  I would drive around looking for a place to park, and trust me, it's hard enough to do that.  And certain time of the day, poof!  They magically turn into valet spots, with these young dudes standing in the empty spots telling me to move along.  

It is so GHETTO too!  They have these handwritten placards taped to telephone poles and parking meters.  Sometimes they have CHAIRS with ROPES!

 Is this legal?  or is this the doing of some greedy restaurant owners trying to bring more customers?

I know this seems kind of a trivial rant but...  good lord, can we please find another way to describe controversy!?  Everything is "Something-gate" nowadays.  The latest is "Ballgate" -- the mystery of the missing world series ball...  Earlier we had "Cameragate" (or "Spygate") for the Pats...

Look.  It was kind of funny the first few times it was used.  But...  it's dead now.  Stop beating the dead horse. 

You'd think that "professional" journalists could come up with something a little more creative.  Watergate was decades ago. Are we going to still be calling things "Something-gate" in another 40 years?  100 years?  come on.  Lets get creative people.

Okay I know we've all had to have experienced this. You're at the self checkout in Home Depot or Shaws, with your five things to buy, and the stupid machine gets into one of it's "unexpected" cycles...

"Unexpected item in bagging area! Please remove item to continue."

Okay... exactly what item WERE you expecting? Fine. I'll remove it.

"Item removed from bagging area!!!!"

Well, okay then. I'll put it back.

"Unexpected item in bagging area!"

ok fine

"ITEM REMOVED FROM BAGGING AREA!!!" wha??? "UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA!!!!" stop yelling at me "ITEM REMOVED FROM BAGGING AREA!!!!!!!!!"

So now you are stuck with this thing going haywire and of course there is no one around to help you out. I think it is clear these machines are on a power trip and need to be stopped before they become self aware.

No seriously, someone needs to figure out how to calibrate the scale on the bagging properly. This happens to me routinely and it's frustrating as hell because you really can't get out of the cycle. I usually end up half lifting up whatever I just put in the bag so that it weighs less and satisfies the machine... if you find the right point you can get it to shut up. But then you're stuck holding the thing with one hand, lest it start yelling at you again, so you have to check out the rest of your stuff with one hand. It totally sucks. What ever happened to hiring cashiers?

Also, why does it check the weight of the thing at all?  After all there is no one there actually checking anything.  If I wanted to steal something... I just wouldn't put it in the bagging area...

Hi everyone, new here.  But totally psyched that it was sunny until 5:30 yesterday!  I love the fact that congress made Daylight Savings last longer this year, but I wish they would just abandon Standard Time altogether, and live on DST (summer time) year round.

Yeah, the downside is that it gets light later in the morning.  But I think most people, at least most people I know, get up around that time anyways (7am or so), so big deal?  It's really great to have it light later in the day.  I hate leaving work in the afternoon in the dark! 

This weekend the clocks will go back and we'll be thrust back into darkness at 4:30 every day.  People will start jumping off of the Tobin bridge, the Pats will start losing (ok probably not), and everything will turn to anarchy, until next spring when we can turn them forward again.  Why bother changing the clocks for just a few months out of the year?

God, people, learn to use a hyphen, please!  On Boston.com there is a picture of Jason Varitek holding a "Resign Lowell" sign.  what does that mean?  does tek want Mikey to resign?  Has no one else picked up on the irony in this?  Theo's gonna get the wrong idea!!!  Red Sox nation should be panicking!!!!

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2007/10/30/1193774983_2219.jpg

On a  side note, I f-ing LOVE mike lowell.  If boston lets him go I'll be devastated.  I'll be even more devastated if they replace him with a-fraud.  I might stop watching the sox if they do that.

I feel like a grumpy old dude ranting about this but here goes.  I live on a semi-busy street.  My bedroom is on the street side (an oversight I regret now).  Why do guys have to drive by with their loud-ass harleys at 120 decibels?  And why, oh why, do they EVER do it at night?  I swear, sometimes I'm just falling asleep at around 12 or 1am when suddenly it's like there is a 747 driving through my bedroom. 

Look, when you drive by on your loud-ass bike, I don't see you.  I don't look your way, and even if I did, I wouldn't even take notice of what you look like or who you are.  So whether you think you are impressing someone or just trying to compensate for the size of your penis, no one actually notices you or cares that you have an expensive noisemaker.  I am sorry you didn't get enough attention when you were a kid and have to make up for it in this way.  But again, no one cares.

If you guys want to form some motorcycle community somewhere away from the rest of civilization, go right ahead and be as loud as you want.  The rest of us would appreciate it.

Why is everyone so up in arms about this?  Last time I checked, football was a competitive sport.  What do you want?  Should the NFL call games once one team gets 35 points ahead?  

If you don't want them scoring 52 points on you, then stop them from scoring 52 points on you.  If you can't stop them, then you lose big.  Thats the name of the game.

With the salary cap in place, you can't argue that they're being unfair, since ostensibly all the teams are on a level playing field.  So stop whining.