I really wasn’t planning on doing a poll today. Only 13 people voted in the last one so I get the message: too many polls. My plans changed when I was at the UPS location earlier today and saw a woman shipping something in the giant box that used to contain feminine hygiene products. [...]

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If you’d like to see the results of my previous polls you can check them here.
This somewhat bugged me for the past few weeks: when someone with unknown phone number calls but doesn’t leave a message, do you get an urge to call back and ask “did you just call me”?  I am not talking [...]

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When people ask me what do I want for such-and-such occasion the answer is always the same - nothing.  I don’t want any presents, gift cards or cash. Do not spend hours in the mall lovingly picking something for me- I will not like it. I can buy something for myself; it will be exactly [...]

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With local highways in permanent state of repair I am reminded of my long time pet peeve - late mergers. These are the smart asses who ride the closed lane all the way to the merge point and then try to force themselves between the drivers who actually obeyed the signs. Apparently there are technologies [...]

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Many of you don’t know that I am a romantic at heart. The problem is that my heart is buried under thick layers of fat and who-knows-what-else so it’s hard to tell. You just have to trust me on that. The other day while driving to work I noticed that some schmuck put up a [...]

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I already have poll questions for the next two weeks, one of them is dealing with body hair and is a little more controversial, although I am pretty sure I know the answer. So the controversy will have to wait.
The question of the week came up because I can’t recall anybody ever mentioning that they [...]

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As always my best work goes unnoticed while a post about beets gains unexpected popularity, which once again proves that the reading public is fickle beyond any reason. Usually by the middle of the week I accumulate some items I want to mention but don’t want to make them into separate posts. So here goes:

Nightmare [...]

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Some time ago I wrote about having a problem maintaining my coffee up to my taste when it’s constantly being refilled. One of the commenters, Burrowowl, noticed that adding other items to coffee amounts to pollution. I am not a coffee connoisseur, I haven’t had a cup of coffee for 10 years before I started [...]

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I expected a better turnout for the first ever contest with a valuable prize. So far my favorite entry is by Midtown Miscreant who used every Russian cliché known to an American in one paragraph. Unless someone comes up with a better entry by Friday, he will be on his way to Red Lobster. Coincidentally [...]

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I find that while driving I have to look around to see who else is on the road next to me. When I pass someone, I almost always have to turn my head and look who I just left behind. Women in fancy cars, especially with plates like “HOT4U” always deserve a look (almost always [...]

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