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It really should be on a weekend.  Who can go on a weekday other than college students?  The rest of us either have to work, or are kids who will be in school.

All fine and dandy if you work anywhere near the parade route, but hello, most of us don't.  And I'm not going to skip a day of work to watch the duck boats go by.  I seem to remember it being on a Saturday last time, could be wrong though.

Also, doesn't it coincide with Free Taco Day!?!?!?!  That is a travesty.  If there are any Taco Bells along Boylston Street, I feel bad for you guys.  You are gonna get hammered with 30,000 red sox fans all demanding their free tacos.  Good luck.  I'll be at work, thanks.

This is a real problem in Boston as we all know.  I don't bike all that often in the city because I prefer to have my limbs intact, but when I do, I think I'm pretty careful and considerate of others I'm sharing the road with. 

However when I'm behind the wheel I'm amazed at some of the things I see bikers doing.  So I thought I'd put together a list of greivances for a rant.

1)  If it's dark out, get a headlight and a tail light, for crying out loud.  I don't know how you expect anyone to see you when you are wearing black clothes and are going the wrong way down a one way street in the pitch dark.  And don't get all pissy with me when I almost hit you.  Yelling "watch where the f#$% you are going" isn't going to help you stay alive.  Look, I don't want to hit you.  But if I can't see you, I probably will. 

2) You ride around like you want to be taken seriously like a car.  Well, act like a car then.  Don't blow through red lights and stop signs and expect people to stop for you.  Yeah, no one's going to hit you on purpose.  But refer to #1 above.  If I can't see you, one of these days I am going to hit you.

3)  Unless you are going 25mph or more, please do what you can to allow cars to pass you.  I know it is difficult and the possiblity of being "doored" is not too enticing, but don't ride in the middle of the lane like you own the road.  When a gap between parked cars opens up, please scoot in and let me pass you.  "Share the road" goes both ways.  I'm sure you don't want to cause a head-on car collision any more than I want to hit you.

4) Respect.  It all comes down to respect.  I am sure 99% of the drivers out there don't want to hit you.  But when you ride with that "can't do wrong" attitude it just pisses people off.  Be considerate; Give way when you can; don't ride like an a-hole and drivers will do the same for you.

I ate at the Joshua Tree last night in Davis.  I've eaten there a number of times but usually get a burger or something, which they do pretty well.  However last night I was feeling adventurous so I ordered the Shepherd's Pie.  I like a good Shepherd's Pie.  After waiting 1 beer's worth of time for the meal, it finally arrived in a little bowl.   Yay, I thought!  I was hungry.  My first sign that things were about to go horribly wrong was when I noticed that the mashed potatoes on top were not browned at all.  That's ok, I figured, maybe it's just how they do things.  But a real Shepherd's Pie should be brown and crusty on top.  This one was not, and the mashed potatoes looked, quite frankly, like they came out of a package.  I am sure they didn't really, but that's the consistency they had.

Then I dug in below the surface to see the meat of the dish.  Imagine my surprise when I found that it was full of Poo!  Ok, not really poo, but damn close to it.  Do you want to know how it tasted?  No, not like poo.  But it was no better than bad canned beef stew.  It was really pretty bad.  Now, if I'd been at a hole in the wall diner and paid $4.95 for it, I honestly would not have been that disappointed.  However, this is a dish I paid twelve dollars for.  That is completely ridiculous.  

I will continue to frequent the Joshua Tree for drinks and occasional burgers.  I especially like their Pilgrim Burger.  But don't stray from the basics, if you don't want to be disappointed!   

Alright, I have a rant that everyone will agree.  Why do cords always get tangled?  Last night, I put two cords (USB cable and a charger cable for blackberry) on the coffee table, neatly next to each other (in fact, I don't think they were even touching).  They were both kind of in rolls like two bundles.  Then, I wake up this morning, goes to grab the USB cable, and DARN IT, the charger cable is all over the USB cable like they were having some hot steamy time all night.  You know...tangled messed up hair and all.  You guys had to do it in my living room?  Man, and on my coffee table where I eat?  You sicko!!  How can you do this to me?  Have you no shame?!  (yes, I yell at cords.)

This happens with all kinds of cords, and, no matter how neatly they are stored, if multiple wires touch, they will be doing the dirty business.  I don't know how much of my life has been wasted untangling things.  This is the 21st frickin' century, when we are supposed to have flying cars, people going to Neptune, and computers revolting against us, and we can't even solve this simple request? 

Forget inventing usless things like wheels and vaccines.  Make my cords stop doing the dirty deeds!

I am gonna get creative and rant on a rant.  I hate people who complained about the price of stamps going up to 41 cents. First of all, why are they still using stamps?  I can't remember the last time I wrote a letter for any reason (email anyone?), sent in a check to pay the bill (online payment anyone?), or sent a thank you card that wasn't an e-card (am I a rude a-hole?) 

This is the day and age where we email and TXT each other (which actually costs like 5 cents), and people are complaining about the stamp price going up by 2 cents?  People just love to rant and have something to rant about to make their lives artificially more meaningful, and shame on them.  Oh, wait...

 PS. People shut up about gasoline prices.  It's still cheper than milk!  ...and when I worked in Europe last year, gasoline was like $5/gallon, and no one complained.  (They just walked to places, actually.)

I hate meatheads out at the bar.  They are not there to have a good time, they just want to drink, hit on girls (badly)  and if nothing else get into a deathmatch with a complete stranger over a such grievious actions as accidently stepping on their shoes.  "Sorry dude, I mean there are a hundred and fifty clumsy drunk people in bar that is barely bigger than average office cubicle, but you are right, I am an jerk, and you have every right to take me outside and "stomp the life out me" If you think you are tough then be a man and join a boxing gym, and remember,  the many Irished themed bars around the Greater Boston area are not the "Ocotogon" and you are not Chuck Lidell so grow up!  

Maybe I'm just being a curmudgeon, but laugh tracks really get on my nerves.  I don't care whether it's a true laugh track or it's filmed "in front of a live studio audience", it just sounds like a cop-out to me.  I feel like they are using the laugh track to compensate for un-funny jokes most of the time.  The worst part is when it turns into an "OOOOOHHHHH WOOOOOOOOO!" track, like when the shy awkward guy character gets a smack on the lips from the popular girl character, which seems to happen at least once per season in every sitcom I've watched.  woooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH!!!!!!!!

 Who's with me on this?

Wow, read this guy's article... talk about harsh on boston...  I can understand they are unhappy that they got spanked 13-1 last night but why the harsh tone?  Is it because you are a bad writer?  (uh, yes)

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/mlb/article/0,2777,DRMN_23924_5730758,00.html

"The 103rd World Series opened in this absurd little tenement by the turnpike Wednesday night"

"Coloradans may not be able to appreciate the local fascination for this analog woodpile, having a much more digital Fenway of their own named after a beer but with more comfortable seats and better food, if no more convenient or cheaper parking."

'Analog woodpile'?  what does that even mean????

Guy, learn to write.  Seriously.  It's like you are making terms up just to sound smart.  Stop.

I did like the 'Josh "Bend It Like" Beckett' part though...