I didn't think I needed to mention it, but I want to say I've got nothing against messengers and think it would be a challenging and somewhat fun job. Bike messengers do seem like more interesting people than, say, accountants, but I don't take any face value from that.

But I'm just playing devil's advocate here and railing on things that are not dominant in messenger culture but are in some professions--say, showing off or excess pride in the identity of a job. It's just bad to see a culture with some good to it suffer from the faults of the jobs to which it's usually contrasted against. Then again, show-offs are found everywhere, and maybe every identifiable group of people needs a healthy portion of them.

/shuts up now