Residual

24 Nov 2009

One of the worst things about public transportation is sitting in a bus or subway seat only to find it is still warm from the previous rider. There’s no real reason this should be gross, but it totally is.

This is yet another reason that I’m not cut out to be a girl.

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Refund

23 Nov 2009

If you go to a restaurant and the meal is terrible, you don’t have to pay for it. Studios might try harder to make better films if you paid for a night at the theater the same way: after the movie didn’t make you sick.

I’m looking at you, Righteous Kill.

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Loss

20 Nov 2009

E-mails from a friend with a subject line that contains simply the full name of another friend always have sad news.

RIP Brooke.

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Gentrification

15 Nov 2009

A good way to tell how nice your neighborhood is by the levels of security protecting men’s razor blade cartridges at the local pharmacy. At my CVS you used to have to go the counter and ask for them, but now you just have to press a “help” button in front of a locked glass case. Movin’ on up!

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Recipe

02 Nov 2009

It seems a little silly that colors can be listed as ingredients. I may not know what thiamin hydrochloride is, but at least it sounds like something my high school chemistry teacher could make. Why even bother with Yellow 5? They may as well just write Ingredients: Mountain Dew.

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Fees

02 Nov 2009

If airlines want to save money, they could fire the guy in charge of programming the in-flight radio stations. I assume the music selection is mediocre, but I honestly have no idea because like every other person in the world, I have never used this feature.

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Flying

02 Nov 2009

A plane really can’t take off until my iPod is turned off? I want to meet the guy who re-routed a 747 with the Jonas Brothers.

- via JA

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