Dear plasterer eating fruit on the subway: If you're going to leave the pips on the train, at least drop them on the floor instead of leaving them on the seat next to you. Dear mother of twins: I see that you have two babies, most likely through no fault of your own, and I get that you need a stroll...

My milk went bad. So I just found myself mentally bitching to myself that I have to either a) go a whole block to get coffee and then it will be a bit cold when I get home and I'll have to microwave it! or b) do my whole grocery shopping without coffee in my system! or c) go to the corner store and ...

Introverts, picture this: You have oh so terribly many errands to do and phone calls to make. But the more you do, the more places you go and things you see and people you talk to, the more energized you'll feel. Wouldn't that be useful? Extroverts, picture this: You're stuck at home all alone with ...

My iTunes gave me El Tango de Roxanne (from Moulin Rouge) and it occurred to me that it would be a good figure skating program. So I went googling and it seems Yu-Na Kim did it a year or two ago (and very impressively indeed!) But the thing I forgot about figure skating music is a) they take out the...

Suppose you have underage nieces/nephews. Due to circumstances beyond anyone's control, their parents (i.e. your siblings) are unable to provide them with some necessity - food, shoes, education, dental work, something that children should reasonably be able to expect their guardians to provide. You...

1. People who automatically assume other people's motives are different from what their own would be in the same situation. Fake but representative example: "OMG, that bitch has her office door closed! She's totally snubbing me!""Does this mean you're snubbing us when you close your door?""No, of co...

You do not have the right to have a cup of coffee in the morning. "WTF?" you're thinking, "I totally do." No, you don't. You're totally allowed. It's perfectly legal. It's your own coffee purchased with your own hard-earned money. No one is going to stop you. Most people will even offer you coffee i...

I like the idea of Twitter. Often when I'm nowhere near a computer I think of brief ideas that I'd like to post. I'd love to follow Levar Burton's attempt to quit smoking or tweet at the TTC's director of communications when there's a subway delay. And I'd totally want to be twittering early reports...

When I was a kid, my peers would often say to me "You're so quiet!" "You never talk!" I had no idea what to say in response. As an adult I'm better at thinking of clever responses than I was as a kid, but to this day I still have no idea what they wanted or expected me to say in response to that. No...

There are notices up in my building telling people not to walk their dogs on this one patch of grass because it belongs to the building next door. There are a lot of dogs in my building because it's actively pet-friendly, but there isn't really a good place to walk them. However, I think if they re-...