"The last woman you heard from said it's a person's First Amendment right to hang a poster like that on a pole, and she said it was also her freedom of speech right to take down that poster, and throw it in the garbage." Brooklynites would rather not be told to "dress modestly" in public.

The dude who decided not to get in on his usual office lottery pool on the very day that it hit a $319 million jackpot is SPEAKING OUT and TELLING HIS STORY, so that even the most miserable of us shall be able to put a face to our "at least I'm not that guy" self-reassurances. His name is Michael Kosko, he's an I.T. worker in Albany, and he "didn't have two singles" to chuck in the pool that day. And he declined to take a $2 loan from a coworker. Bummer.