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Every fall, the universities start up and traffic is horrendous until January, when I am assuming that many of you have failed or dropped out.
This year, why don’t you save us all some trouble —hoping you quit while you still have your money
This article appears in Sep 11-17, 2014.
11 Comments
Dear op. You are traffic. You are the problem. Stop deflecting.
meh, tho i’m sure some folks enjoy the lolita style of dressing this year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiM5axZV-pM
OP, it doesn’t matter if you are a nurse, doctor, or government worker. My little princess has the same right to be on the road as you are.
UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
I found this bitch to be both insightful and provocative. It was provocative on the basis of the fact that the traffic will be horrendous until January when many aspiring students will have either failed or dropped out although the cause-effect relationship between the two was simply asserted rather than established. However, the insightful (although unspoken) aspect I found to be more significant. What was that insightful aspect? Let me explain.
In this age of the common man it is assumed, without evidence, that everyone is intellectually equal and that, as a consequence, everyone is thereby entitled to a university education. Where university is to be understood as that stage of education to which only the intellectually superior are able to attain this sense of entitlement is misconceived. It is based on an unrealistic philosophy of egalitarianism. It is based on unrealistic expectations. But how are these expectations unrealistic?
These expectations are unrealistic since everyone is not intellectually equal. This is a hard but unavoidable fact. There are those who have given grounds of intellectual achievement – the percentage is miniscule – for whom university is their natural home. It is true of course that the university itself has become debased in the interests of increasing enrollments, pandering to the hordes of the intellectually unfit, but that is another story, only a side-bar to the real story. What is that story?
The story is the obscene mortality rate of those who have gained entry but, in a very brief time, have shown themselves incapable, incompetent or otherwise derelict. It is an autumnal slaughtering of the sheep, so to speak. The only glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel in all of this is that, after January, traffic conditions will improve. But at what a cost!
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Short of the occasional too-loud parties, I quite enjoy the little fuckers… the male ones anyway.
There is one interesting positive aspect of the “excess” University enrolment. Those who are less suited are subsidizing those who thrive at University by contributing their tuition and then dropping out early in the year. A similar analogy would be the very large number of people who pay for fitness club memberships every January, presumably due to resolutions to live a healthier lifestyle, only to disappear by the end of February. They subsidize membership for those who attend regularly throughout the year. The regulars in turn only have to tolerate a bit of overcrowding at the gym for the first few weeks of the year.
There are some hot babes trolling SGR this fall. I saw one chick with the longest legs in the world. They went from her ankle all the way up to her arse. Un-frikken-believable.
Why don’t you say what you mean? You don’t like the additional traffic and you have no patience for this fact.
Actually, traffic is a mess when the school year starts, both in September and again in January. Once all those who are new to travelling downtown on a daily basis (usually within a month) learn their routes, and realize they have to awaken and leave the house 30 minutes earlier, the traffic levels will subside somewhat.
Op’s idea that the traffic subsides after enough people fail out of university is very small minded. There are many reasons why traffic is more dense in the first few weeks after Labour Day.
It is not just crappy for a few weeks. It is crappy all Fall, so OB may have a point.