Dear university students:
I thank you in advance for ruining my commute to and from work for the next 8 months.
Love and kisses,
Poib
This article appears in Sep 3-9, 2009.
Sigh.
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seriously though.
I don’t get it. Are they going to class in the middle of the road or something?
I used to have to put up with this crap too. Then I got a real job, bought a car and moved out of the city. Now I just deal with idiot drivers on my daily commute. I’ll take them over the smelly/obnoxious/stinky/loud/odiferous/annoying/stanky/rude/reeking/stupid students any day though.
University students are much quieter and go to school 8 months of the year (usually) vs. junior high and high school who go 10 months a year.
You ever get on the 7 or 80 at 3:30?
This is why I love being up at 5:30 – getting the bus at 6:30 and arriving home, from Burnside, at 5:30.
I avoid all of that.
It’s wonderful.
OP, you also forgot to thank them for the massive panhandling scam yesterday called “Shinerama” which no longer has anything to do with shining shoes and which is the most poorly organized, most irritatingly annoying, and most ridiculously ill-conceived fundraising scam ever devised.
The next 2 weeks……..is the worst traffic snarl-ups for the whole year………..which follows the BEST 2 weeks all year……….which just ended.
It was bliss………..now it is hell.
Two weeks from now the chips will start falling into place……….then we’ll endure ‘Regular Traffic Loads’ for another 8 months………….followed by a slight lifting of traffic density for 2 months……..then 2 months of less and and less traffic until we fall back to today’s date in hell once more.
As Smee sees it!
Like we don’t deserve to use roads?? Get over yourself. This is my city too. By the way I don’t drive, I walk pretty much everywhere I go, but I’m sick of people thinking students don’t have an equal right to be in Halifax.
Dear Asshole:
Thank you for taking for granted the millions of dollars that me and my 10,000 or so friends pump into your economy every 8 months.
Sincerely,
Student.
Amen, ustwess.
ustwess millions of dollars into the “economy”? I would be happy if I owned a bar.
Bars, restaurants, clothing stores, book stores, grocery stores, gas stations, banks.. Open your closed mind, Bobby. We don’t just live at the bars.
Also…halifax university students (close to 30,000) keep the universities running. Universities employ people who live here and some of their employees are the highest income earners in the city….their tax dollars pay for, among other things, that public transit the students make so uncomfortable.
Also, those students have jobs. They are the ones bitching about how little we tip. Also, those students have to live somewhere and give slum lords something to do. Let’s say each student dumps about $10,000/year into our economy ( a very conservative number) and that’s $300 million right there.
Students are a loud, obnoxious, drunken, STI-carrying cash cow for this city.
Can we clarify these comments to “new students” or “frosh”, as opposed to “students”? I’m neither loud, obnoxious, drunken nor STI-carrying, though I know the group you’re referring to. No need to generalize.
I’m a masters student and I’m obnoxious and drunken.
No STIs though…
While we’re on subject, let’s not forget the money students pump into the STI clinics. We’re talking big bucks here folks. BIG BUCKS.
Although they do cause delays while I’m in there for my bi-weekly jock itch treatment.
No offense intended Heathro…there are lots of great students, frosh included, that are wonderful human beings. I was just going with the theme of the bitch is all.
ustwess – your comment is halarious. Half the student out there are living and pay tuition off student loans borrowed money off of the federal gov and prov govs. Which may or may not get paid back. As of right now the provincial gov is paying your interest so that you stay interest free status. SOOOOOOoo your not pumping that much into the economy. Get over your self
Actually, if you want to factor in student loans….Out of province students get their provincial loans from their home province…so that money gets dumped into our economy. Also, Nova Scotia has a large amount of out of province students, many of which can only afford to be hear because their well-to-do parents can pay for it. That non-loan money also gets dumped into our economy. Also, a lot more than just students live off of credit and loans. It doesn’t matter where the money comes from, the fact that it changes hands is what counts as beneficial to our economy. The students are this city’s winter tourists and without either this city would sink into it’s stinky harbour.
Let’s not forget the (not insubstantial number of) international students – every cent they spend comes from out of province, and I’m reasonably confident they keep luxury car and aftermarket parts dealers in business.
All good points, Miles.
Someone’s just bitchy cuz they gotta stand up on the bus.
Wahwahwah. Students *can* be annoying, but let’s face it: Halifax is a university city. Without the universities and students, Halifax would be no more than a small ass almost-not-even-a-city city like….Sydney…*shudder*
Also, for the record, this student *points to PK* has no STIs either!
Hands up if you’re STI free! Over here too!!
You know, without the Upass program (which I voted against twice in my university days because I lived where MT didn’t go), I probably wouldn’t have the job I do now as there would be far less bus riders. It’s a part of the job.
I hate frosh kids.
I hate not being able to take a bus in the afternoon because it whizzed past me, full of students.
But I am a student.