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Has everyone noticed the extra "9" in the gasoline prices at gas stations?  The nine that makes the gas price, not a $2.09 but a $2.099.  Is it only me that thinks this is a dirty deception? 

Why can't they be normal and just put $2.10?  Must they try so hard to give the perception that it's under some threshold? How is this even legal?  In fact, I don't even know how to pay $2.099.  If I gave $2.10, do I get a tenth of a penny back?

Maybe the Snicker bars should be $0.999? 

Why, why, why in the world do people on airplanes realize that those “things” they put their hands on are something people are sitting on?!  Yes, I am talking about people who yank the seat in front of them to get up, people who walk down the aisle grabbing the top of seats, and people who lean on the tables that are attached to the seats in front of them. 

I am thinking they do it, because they don’t realize how annoying it is to others.  Please, please, please be a little more aware of your surroundings!! 

This is just enough to make me sick.

The MBTA now admits that they've been secretly cutting bus service back without publishing it in their timetables.  Lying to us.  

All the while, they've been raising fares.  This can only mean massive corruption within the organization.  Someone is skimming off the top and getting rich(er) off of us somewhere.

My solution?  Dissolve the whole organization.  Fire them all.  The entire management.  Start over. 

Holy cr@p, Boston.   I've hit at least four bone-jarring car-slamming potholes in the last two days.  Luckily no major tire or rim damage yet but each one feels like my car is going to crack in half...  You know what I mean.  Must just be a really rough winter for them.

On the plus side, I'm also noticing a lot of the giant potholes getting fixed, so I guess crews are out there doing their job.  Must just be a lot to keep up with.

Do NOT use the car wash by McDonalds on Route 28.  My friend, Tom, took his car there and his car was damaged as a result.

While docking his car with the moving plate, the attendant kept telling him to keep pulling forward.  Tom felt uncomfortable doing this since he could feel the car locked in, but he kept being instructed to move further in.  After the wash, he noticed that his tire was slashed by the moving parts.  I believe both the tire and the rim were damaged and he had to replace both of them.

Tom obviously spoke with the manager, but the store gave him a lot of trouble.  Only after a few days and several angry calls, they finally agreed to pay for the damage.  (I am not sure if Tom's being a lawyer helped the situation, as I am not sure if he ever pulled out the L card.)

In summary, I do not recommend bringing your car to that car wash.

I am sure many agree.  I hate driving through Big Dig.  It is still completely jammed for most of the day!  Where did our 14 billion dollars go?  I think the mistake was made in making the estimate of the vehicles traveled.

I went to the Old State House on Congress and State today to take my out-of-town guests, and saw some interesting stats on the Central Artery and Big Dig.

- The original raised Central Artery was built in 1959 and was designed to carry 75,000 cars a day. 
- In 1990 before it was demolished, it carried almost 200,000 cars a day. 
- New (Big Dig) Central Artery is designed to carry 250,000 cars a day.

I got a few gripes here. 
1) How was the “capacity” considered as 75K, but the road was carrying 200K cars?  If there were 200K vehicles traveling, isn’t the capacity of the road 200K? (I know, I know.  Maybe the capacity is # of cars it can support to travel without traffic or something.)

2) Going from 200K to 250K doesn’t seem like much. 25% increase seems like we will catch up fairly quickly.  Of course, unless we mean “250K capacity”, but it can actually hold like 700K cars (see #1 for definition of “capacity.”)

3) …wait, is it an increase from 75K to 250K?

4) 200K figure may be correct in a factual sense, but it ignores the fact that it is NOT a good estimate of how many cars “could” be traveling on it.  Bostonians avoided Central Artery at all costs because the traffic was so bad.  Many of those people wanted to take 93 but couldn’t.  (and now they do)

So, I sure hope we didn’t use this figure to come up with the 250K figure, because from my experience, we already got 250K riding on it.  What the heck are we gonna do now?  Go figure.  …sigh…

I live in Sturbridge and commute on Mass Pike.  Have you guys noticed those humongous cell phone towers that are meant to look like trees?

I think the intention is good, but I think those things are very ugly.  I mean…did they think they could fake people by painting these trees brown and with fake leaves?  It’s not like the fact that the “tree” is 200 feet and 4 times as tall as the one next to isn’t a big give away.

I’d like to unleash my anger on drivers who brake even though no one else is braking.  I hate driving behind these people who can’t control their speeds.  The brake lights constantly going on and off…why do they do that?

Isn’t it quite simple?  Just keep the speed maintained with the flow of traffic.  Everyone else is, so why can’t you?  Don’t go faster than the car in front of you.  You will never be magically transported to the front.   (For that matter, don’t go slower than the car in front of you and leave room, but that’s for another rant.) 

Keep this rule of thumb…you should NOT have to brake unless the car in front of you is braking.  Please, please, remember this!  If you don’t know what I am talking about, please self-reflect for a moment, and think if you are doing this.  It might just be you, but you just never noticed.

You are wasting gas.  You are wasting your brake pads.  You are angering people behind you!  Stop!!!!