and sometimes outright repellent.

You know you're jaded when you read a headline like "Aliens gave me psychic powers" and you don't click on the link because you've read it a thousand times already.

One day I was walking home and as I stood at 12th and Woodland, waiting for the light to cross, three ambulances came screaming down the various roads from all directions, lights flashing, sirens blaring, weaving around parked and confusedly motionless cars. They converged on a tall brown house halfway down the block, one of them in such a hurry it drove right up onto the front yard.

I thought to myself, "That's odd. It isn't Wednesday."

Just a little jaded.