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Jerk of the Week: The Whacky Pizza Party Someone once told me that they lived vicariously through my Jerks of the Week tales. Of course, this was long ago when I used to frequent bars with my friends. I was in my late 20s back then, and I lived within walking distance of my local…

Jerk of the Week: The Potter Room and the $40,000 Business Proposal I can’t say I’m an avid Clue player. I loved the movie – it might actually be my favorite movie of all time – but the board game kind of sucks because it’s formulaic and no one really knows how to play it…

Jerk of the Week: Nala, but Not from the Lion King We’ve had one of the longest and coldest winters in memory, but it’s finally over. The warm weather is here, and the clocks have moved backward, or forward, or sideways, I can’t remember which way. I guess I should look it up, but I’ve…

Jerk of the Week: Begone, William and Alan! My son has invented a new type of exercise and method of entertainment. Yes, I wrote “and” instead of “or” purposely, because it’s both. I first caught wind of this during my father-in-law’s surprise birthday party, which we hosted at my house. Following dinner and dessert, my…

Jerk of the Week: The Elusive Hot Dog When my wife told me that she had a winter wonderland festival at her church that she wanted me to attend one Saturday, I was concerned. I’m not a religious person, so I’ve seldom gone into houses of worships. I occasionally went to synagogues as a young…

Jerk of the Week: Are You Down with PCP? The health care system in America was never great, but I remember it being so much better when I was a young adult doing things on my own for the first time. I used to be able to schedule a routine doctor’s appointment and show up…

Jerk of the Week: For Here or to Go? I’ve written about countless restaurants in my near 17 years of maintaining Jerks of the Week. Whether it’s been the horrible service at Red Lobster, or the terribly ugly people at Andale, or the guy who came on to me at a local Italian place, there’s…

Jerk of the Week: The Play Pad Birthday Bash My wife asked me a silly question the other day. “Do you want to take the kids with me to A.J.’s birthday party?” For context, A.J. is the son of one of our friends, and he was turning four. The party would be held at a…

Jerk of the Week: Andale My wife has a wild theory about mattress stores. “There’s just fronts for mob operations,” she said. “Have you ever seen anyone in a mattress store? I bet if you just watched a mattress store each day, you wouldn’t see more than one or two people go into it.” “Well,…

Jerk of the Week: The San Francisco Poop Patrol “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” – George Carlin I don’t like to begin articles of any sort, including Jerks of the Week entries, with a quote. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it,…