Dude, if you ride a fix and rock a messenger bag, you will be mistaken for a messie. Admit it: that's why you do it...

And thus concludes our lesson on the dangers of irony.

I'll admit it, I've taken the messenger discount at the coffee shop downtown.

My LBS discounts aren't from that, though.

i'm sorry i spelled ridiculous wrong, i knew i would, i've never been able to spell that word, also i'm glad a few people found this entertaining, i had been drinking when i wrote it and my mind wasn't really in a clear state,

i don't know why anyone would be offended by being confused for a messenger and the reason i'm not going to try messing this summer is that i have an internship at a record promotions company in manhattan and a night job so i should be ok for money for the summer(summer paychecks from my school are great) but come fall i'm hoping to stay in brooklyn(i have a summer sublet starting in two days) and i'm thinking that combined with my night job i might be able to get by financially as a messenger during the day(does that make sense?), but we'll see i may be able to secure a job through my internship, we'll see

holy****in'****.
i only know one person who would do this, and he's not soyboy. what's PDF, and how'd you meet this person, and was his name Brian?

...and 'stereotyping'. lol.

Next time;
Yes, I am a messenger for the Dark Lord, a harbinger of the land of **** and despair.
Thanks for asking, what do I owe you for the bearings.

I am so sick of this type of ****. Keep your cocoa powder and cinnamon and raisins out of my veggie chili.

Chocolate (and by vegan extension, I assume cocoa powder) is a wonderful secret ingredient in chilis. I serves to facilitate a mixing of the flavors, and is itself unobtrusive. But keep your ****ing raisins out of my chili, unless they're the golden kind. I love golden raisins.

Golden raisens in cous cous is the ultra-****ing jam.

Golden raisins + cinnamon sticks + orange (or lemon, I suppose) zest in couscous is best.

Aaaaaaand... the highjack.

Oh man, that does sound good.

Chili w/o meat is not chili people.
It's bean soup.
It's like riding a 10 spd bike w/no DRs, looks similar but kind of pointless.

Persecution?

Heck, he probably had been giving you a "messenger discount" and you didn't know it.

Look, if I wore one of those SWAT team type jump suits, steel toe boots, with cop accessories, and drove a Crown Victoria with tinted windows and a big antenna, I would understand why people would think I were a cop.

It wasn't a stereotype. It was an assumption.

Lets see, I find this interesting because this "mistaken identity" affects my day to day work.
I design fire suppression sprinkler systems for a living. Many of the projects I work on are in tenant spaces in buildings being remodeled. New walls and ceiling etc. Anyway, there needs to be a little field survey work done in these spaces in order to prepare my drawings. So I have to run around the loop here in chicago to a bunch of buildings. This allows me to ride my bike during the day, going from building to building. The problem I was having, was walking up into the dock and then trying to gain access to these buildings and projects I am working and being told what I want to do isn't allowed by messangers, becasue the dock guard / Service guys think I am a messanger. Rightfully so, I walk up with my helmet, rolled up jeans, cycling cap and a messenger bag, what would you think. So now when I lock up my bike the helmet stays with the bike, steel toes get put on, hard hat gets worn, cycling cap comes off and jeans get rolled down. I just found it interesting those first few times that no matter how many times I told them I wasn't a messanger and was working with so and so contractor in the building, on such and such floor, they still would have trouble believing me.

Um yeah...........I am fine being a poser and actually posing, but prefer to be known as a poser, not as the actual person or thing I was trying to pose as. How dare they.

Can't we just get back to recipes? All this reading makes me tired.

That sounds really good. Otherwise, you people all make me sick. Sick!

I never ended up making Juvi's sandwich last night, but tonight for sure.
Turkey, goat cheese, (sauteed) onions and spinach on sour dough
Can't wait for that ****.

I love goat cheese.

Seriously.

Yum, goat cheese goes on all salads. ALL SALADS.

My favorite salad I make:
Spinach, dried cranberries, goat cheese, walnuts and chicken if I feel like making it.

So I was having dinner with a few Islamic friends of mine, and one of them told me that cous cous never gets advertised on TV in Islamic countries. Apparently cous means vagina.