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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because the DMV is a hellmouth full of the kind of tiresome people who think they and their kids are in some kind of gladiatorial deathmatch toward an arbitrary version of success that they've seen on TV, or heard about from the country club their boss let them visit once--or dreamed about before they or their parents came to America, or the east coast from Iowa, or Appalachia, or Antigua--whatever.

You know all those people in high school who thought student government was interesting? Who ratted you out for running in the hallway? Who would never dare to wear black? They're all here. Every last one of them. And they all have Extremely Important Jobs. They'd tell you more but they're in a hurry. Extremely Important, remember? That's why they drive around you when waiting to make a left turn to make one themselves, that's why they honk the millisecond the light turns green, that's why they look like they got dressed using the Preppy Handbook c. 1983 and a Talbot's catalogue as their style guide.

I respect the idea that college should be a training ground for future employment--hard to disagree with that. But the narrow version of success these people outline is deeply conformist, uncreative, aesthetically terrible, and, in most cases, bound to turn their kids into  neurotic, miserable people who constantly chase a brass ring that most will never reach... those that do will spend the next few decades talking to their therapist about having imposter syndrome.

Tin pot admins who whine about their 2.5 million dollar houses. No, seriously I'm not jealous. You people have the worst taste. [/quote]

A-plus comment. Do go off, Queen![/quote]

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