Yeah. It’s nuts. In my lifetime I’ve paid millions of dollars in taxes and yet they still make me pay money to park on the streets I paid for or to cross the bridges I paid for. One time they gave me a $300 speeding ticket just for driving on the roads I paid for. Where is the Justice?! After spending well over $100,000 the hospital still makes me pay for parking too when I go there. Disney land and 6 flags still charge me to park even with the paid ticket to the park and all the money people spend there- and the damn airport still charges me parking as well after hundreds of thousands of dollars spent there as well! It’s almost as if the price of parking isn’t included in these things and that there’s some sort of pattern of paid parking. I bet your college also makes you pay for your own food (unless you bought a meal pass), and perhaps... gasp. They make you pay for your own toilet paper too? Life is so cruel sometimes. So senselessly unfair.

Happy birthday. I’m sorry they forgot your birthday. Hopefully you liked the presents you bought yourself though?

Funny enough this ties into a discussion I was having in another post. The sort of criteria to determine that relies heavily on the aliens relative ability to apply force. If a group is stronger than us we will tend to feel fear and or respect towards it. The degree of each depends much on wether and how much that thing benefits us. The boss which pays your checks and gives you fair assignments tends to be respected. The boss who seeks hostile or disinterested; who meddles and who’s presence usually means bad news tends to be feared.