GIRL: But we haven't had a chance to look at the menu -

BOY: We want to sit at a table together.

WAITER: Leave!

If you come to Wong Kei in a party of more than one, expect a hassle. If there's no room for you and they don't want you cluttering up their waiting area, they'll force you to sit on two different floors in the restaurant. Boston seems to be catching on to the trend. Pizzeria Regina in the North End and the Lowell House Dining Hall continue to see their popularity skyrocket even though they batter and bruise their customers into submission. What's with all the culinary S&M? Even I can't muster up a hypothesis to explain this trend-o-rama. All I know is you best behave yourself-and just try leaving anything less than a 20 percent tip.

OOPS...I DIVA-ED AGAIN (a.k.a. WHO LET THE DIVAS OUT? WOOF WOOF)

Like figure skating at the winter games, women's gymnastics makes every other sport at the Summer Olympics look positively banal. Nowhere else can you find such intense drama, so much crying and hysteria and so many tiny, oppressed waifs. But who could have possibly envisioned the tragicomic-mystery that unfolded this week in Sydney! Let's relive the high, low and just plain weird moments: