Farmer’s Market

Why the hell is the Farmer’s Market so crowded?  I know it’s awesome and all, but the crowds create uber-suckage status.  I go there at 7:30AM; I go there at 11AM.  It doesn’t make a difference.  I feel like I’m on a NYC Subway at rush hour.  Try walking through tightly packed sardines trying to find something to eat. It’s not fun.  Waiting 10 minutes for a donut?  Dodging baby carriages that take up the entire width of the pedestrian area? Family of 6, plus 4 grandparents, plus 2 nannys yelling above everyone else?  When will it end? That place is so overcrowded, I am starting to avoid it like the plague.

Aioli

Every (i.e. not every, but MANY) freaking Aioli in this town is Hellmann’s mayonaise with added crap.  That’s not aioli!  There is a reason they call it Hellmann’s.  It is a gelatenous gob of tasteless fat.  Get with the program, chefs.  Impress me and let me know where I can get the real raw egg shizzle that tastes like ambrosia.

UNCUS Cover

The cover reads Single Streamin’ Comminglin’ which sounds like a porn movie gone wrong.  It makes no sense.

Gunshots Late at Night

They freak me out.   People near me have been killed.  Babies have been killed.  What gives?  Maybe we should realize these crimes occur in specific parts of the city and do something about it.

Forgot this one… Mixed Drink Prices

$9 Dollars is now the standard price for a 99% ice, 1% booze mixed drink with a really fancy name.  I like throwing money away, but seriously where can you find mixed drinks in this town for a decent price?

I have a lot more, but they aren’t local.  What are yours?

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Anyone notice the little lacrosse brats all over town this weekend? There must have been some sort of tournament in town because it seemed there was an infestation of them. Perhaps I was just unlucky, but I ran into these kids multiple times and kept wondering when they’d get the heck out of town.

On Saturday night, a troop of these little hoodlums and their parents came into one establishment and immediately split up. The parents swarmed the bar to proceeded to get sloshed while their kids ate in another area of the restaurant and had what seemed to be a small scale food fight. On Sunday afternoon, I saw a little group of them in the courtyard outside Five Guys at Barracks Road. They were mashing up peanuts and throwing them across the courtyard (possibly at other diners?). I haven’t been into Five Guys in a while, but isn’t there a HUGE sign on the peanut bin asking that people keep them in the store? Small detail, I guess, but the courtyard was littered with those stupid kids’ shells.

I wondered if I was just in curmudgeon mode and needed to chill out, so I asked a friend if she noticed any rowdy kids around this weekend. She said friends of hers had stayed in a downtown hotel and the kids were acting up there as well.

Remember when going on a field trip meant being on your best behavior? Remember when wearing a school sweatshirt meant that you were representing your community?

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