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Last night, I-290, known as the Eisenhower Expressway in Chicago, was shut down for close to an hour for "police activity." All lanes in both directions were closed. As I was driving home, I managed to avoid most of this traffic, but was curious about what constituted "police activity;" the radio people will usually specify an accident if that is the case.

So, this morning, I went to the local news radio station (WBBM 780 (don't click until you read the rest of this) to see if they had reported on the incident. I wasn't thirty seconds into browsing their front page when one of the advertisements started talking to me, trying to sell me a new car.

I hate ads with sound. I need to be able to sit at my desk and work (or browse) without interrupting the other people in the vicinity. I do not want to wear headphones or turn the sound off completely (although maybe that is what I will have to do); I simply want to browse and only have sound when I expect to have sound. I know it is petty, but that ad will stop me from visiting that website in the future, and that is just sad.