Category Archives: rant

An Albanian from New York

I was returning from India, back to the US, earlier this month. The flight was via Frankfurt, and I was more than glad to have gotten off Lufthansa’s straight-jacket style coach seats, and was actually looking forward to the merely-claustrophobia-inducing seats on US Airways. I made my way to into the aircraft half-dazed and half …

January 28, 2008 – 5:01 pm | By Semantic Overload | Posted in rant | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Wait staff woes

A couple of days ago, I was at Bennigans Restaurant placing a ‘to-go’ order. I got talking with the guy behind the bar counter (who was taking ‘to-go’ orders). And did he have horror stories or what! From what he had to tell me, based what I heard from others, and my own research: it …

December 5, 2007 – 3:50 pm | By Semantic Overload | Posted in debate, discussion, rant, society | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (7)

So India won the Twenty20 world cup

Am I the only one who suspects that India was allowed to win the cup in order to offset the massive losses that corporate India suffered after India’s early exit in the one-day world cup in West Indies?

September 25, 2007 – 12:46 pm | By Semantic Overload | Posted in india, rant, sports | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

Smoking at a gas station

This happened to an acquaintance of mine a few days ago. She pulls up to a gas station to fill up and sees a guy smoking right next to the pump. She asks the guy “Excuse me sir. Could you please not smoke here. I would like to fill my car up, and its just …

September 23, 2007 – 12:50 am | By Semantic Overload | Posted in rant | Tagged | Comments Off