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Things to Hate on a Wednesday

Considering a move to New Jersey? Here are some aspects of the interstate commute that you can anticipate loathing: *The man (or woman, I actually don't see gender patterns here) who feels entitled, before 7 AM, to have a lengthy phone call on an otherwise-silent train car. This man (or woman) will almost certainly end the call by reaching for his (or her) headphones, which will be turned up too loud, so that you can hear just a fraction of, say, Rihanna's "Please Don't Stop the Music," but not an appealing fraction, just, like, a small insect whine that doesn't end and doesn't end and doesn't end. *The man (this is usually a man) who feels entitled to interrupt the flow of foot traffic out of the train car at Hoboken, but who then does not extend the same courtesy to other passengers. *The poster advertising "the Felician Way": Felician is apparently a small college in New Jersey, and the poster features an older white man pontificatin...