I would like to remind all citizens sharing our city streets and sidewalks in the proper use of a bicycle bell/horn. Cyclists should always ring their bell when approaching slower moving traffic...pedestrian or cyclists...from the front or the rear. Just a jingle, no need to lay on it. The bell is not meant to shoo people out of the way, but to alert them that a bicycle is approaching. Simply a "heads up" so I don't startle a little old lady into pooping her panties.

It is the overtaking cyclists responsibility to then make a safe move to get around the other party. Kind of like overtaking/passing vehicles on the highway with your car. Pedestrians, don't give me a dirty look when I jangle my bell. I only want you to be aware of my presence. Cyclists, don't be douches: ring your bell, have safety lighting, wear reflective clothing and drive safely obeying all vehicular laws. -Old Guy Cyclist That Does Not Wear Spandex

It's bad enough when people get hit by a car—and I, myself, have recently been hit. But for someone to hit my dog with their car, and then to just continue to drive away, really makes me sick to my stomach. Whether it's a person or an animal. It's not OK to hit someone and drive off. How can a person sleep at night, or even live with themselves? I hope they rot in hell. -You're lucky my dog is OK

You know what, fuck you. Fuck you! Ohhh, you have work that needs to get done, congra-fucking-lations to YOU!! You must be the only person ever on earth who has ever had work that needed to get done. What a rare and wonderful breed you are.

This may surprise you, so sit down, but the rest of us have work to do too. The fact that you seem to think you have the right to dictate to the rest of us that we have to drop what we're doing to get your work done, doesn't matter one little bit to me. I have a boss, it's not you, so go the fuck away. Don't come to my desk, wave your hands and rant in my face because I can't come and help you show someone else how to do your work. And ha ha ha, fuck you again, but going to another co-worker and trying to have them come to me and try to have me leave my stuff to go show this other person how to do your work, didn't work either.

Don't promise me and or my time to someone else, when you are more than capable of showing someone how to do your work, better still, just fucking do your work yourself. The time you've just wasted with all this bullshit could have been spent, oh, I don't know...working? Hey, you may not realize it, but other people have other work to do and we're not just diddling around waiting to help you out.

Calm the fuck down and just do what you're supposed to do and leave the division of work alone. -Not YOUR Worker Bee

Me: I just get so pissed off at the older generation.
Therapist: Why?
Me: Because when I grew up, we were force fed the idea that if you didn't go to college you'd be flippin' burgers.
Therapist: And?
Me: And now a lot of us have gone to college, have degrees, can't get a damn job and then the same people call us entitled because we refuse to flip burgers! Therapist: Touché indeed.
-Kirk P.

1: Learn how to tamp the fucking bean right to create a proper espresso. Stop serving me this watery shit with a cum stain floating on top.

2: When someone orders a short Americano, DON’T TRY TO EDUCATE US ON HOW TO MAKE A PROPER AMERICANO, JUST PUT HALF THE FUCKING WATER IN THE CUP. JESUS FUCK. WHEN I ASK FOR A SHORT AMERICANO IT MEANS I WANT HALF THE FUCKING WATER YOU USUALLY PUT IT.

Thanks. -A guy who wants to get what he pays for instead of your bullshit

To the group who wrote "let your cat in jerk" on the sidewalk with our coloured chalk last night: Your graffiti art is a monument to the human indulgence of judging and condemning someone while ignorant of the facts.

(1) Duh, you used our coloured chalk from our front steps. Coloured chalk on front steps = young children live here. Nice to write what you did for their benefit.

(2) The cat in question is having some health issues, which involve cat excrement dripping out at random times wherever the cat happens to be. We happen to have thought it better that the cat be outside for one summer night rather than drip excrement on our dining table, kitchen counters and beds, until we could set up a cage for him the next morning, so we can nurse him back to health in a better situation. Sorry if you feel differently.

(3) We happen to be awesome pet owners, and have spent so much time, effort and money on this poor cat's health problems that I am embarrassed to disclose the amount.

(4) Your tactics of condemning us very publicly by marking our property with our alleged crime (a cat outside on a summer night—call the cops!) is one used by other groups who love to vilify innocents: Nazi party, KKK, those involved in witch hunts. A minor act in comparison, but taken from the same playbook. Obviously this is an act of little consequence (although the younger kids were a bit shaken), but I hope you will think twice (or how about just once?) in some other situation in which you really don't know squat, that might carry serious consequences for someone.

To show you that I have no hard feelings, I offer you this particular cat to make your own pet, so you can be sure it is well and properly taken care of. I will even throw in a few bottles of RestoraLAX. -Think Before You Act

Why is it that when people come to the house to see the occupants they feel they should park their vehicle in the driveway thus blocking an occupant's car from leaving? It is a low-traffic residential street with LOTS of available street parking, usually right in front of the house. Is it not obvious that the driveway is for the homeowner's use, not the visitor's? I am perplexed. -Making A Sign (the kind you post by the driveway, not the extended middle digit sort)

My brother has been CRAZY looking for work lately. He has sent off like 100 applications in the last month. He got offered four jobs this week. Now he doesn't know if he wants any of them, and I'm like, "Dude! WTF!? I know people out of work for a year!' -Pick one and bail if something better comes along!

I don't like rules any more than you do. Yeah, I break 'em when I can, when I'm sure they don't have negative impacts on others. I know my dog loves to run loose, but I take her to dog parks for this. There's one just kitty corner to the Common, where Cogswell and Rainnie collide. That's why it bothers me when I'm walking my leashed dog across the Common, and she is harassed by loose dogs. Some are aggressive. Now I tend to think conflicts between dog owners have to do with people and not dogs, so I'm going to ask nicely, can you please keep your dog leashed on the Common? Take them to a dog park to run around loose. Or run them leashed and get yourself some exercise, too. I really don't want to see my dog attacked again by loose dogs on the commons, and it's not the dogs' fault. So it's up to you. -Dog Walker

So although Facebook is technically the bane of societal existence, it's a great opportunity to see what assholes really think of you. I'd like to thank you for publicly humiliating me by failing to appreciate the three months of scheduling, planning and coordinating your event PLUS the 26 hours of date-specific project-related work I recently did for you by publicly thanking EVERYONE ELSE BUT ME. The rest of the team spent the last four hours shaming you, I defended you because it's the right thing to do. "It's no big deal, it was not on purpose, etc. etc." But really? You're an asshole. -Make a list before publicly opining, jackass.