Visiting Mikey's entry about the supposed one-pound burger at Carl's Jr. took me back a ways to my days in Boston. There's a place in Harvard Square that's pretty well-known to the locals called Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage (more commonly just known as "Bartley's") which has the best burgers I've ever had and they actually do have a one-pound burger, which yours truly has devoured and then couldn't eat anything for a day and a half afterwards. But I only did it once, and I usually got one of their other burgers when I was there. I remember once I was there with a friend, eating outside, when, for some reason, we both looked over at this woman walking down the street. It's not that she was particularly attractive, it's that we both instinctively realized that if she didn't change her course, the child whose hand she was holding (and who was probably her son) would walk straight into the parking meter sticking up from the sidewalk. I personally thought the kid, who looked to be about 5 years old, would realize this even if Mommy didn't and move out of the way. But he didn't. He walked headfirst right into the meter, and the damn thing went "WANG!" as it all reverberated -- I swear, I even heard change inside the meter rattle. The kid was so stunned he just fell back on his ass on the sidewalk without even crying. Mommy didn't really even ask if he was okay, just said, "Didn't you see the meter?" and then hauled him back up and made him start walking again. To this day, I know I should find this to be a sad story, but it still makes me laugh my ass off just as much as when it initially happened and my friend and I burst into laughter after seeing it. Schadenfreude strikes again, but it was just one of those perfect America's Funniest Home Video moments.