Let's give 'em their own lane. There needs to be some right-of-way. Multiple times I have gotten off the bus that was stuck on North and busted my ass to get to work in the sun and still been late. Our bus system frustrates me, I want my $2.50 back. —SweatyPissedNLate

I've known for a while you're a CD I would've cared for you enough to accept you for who you are; however you didn't accept me for who I was. —Judge me not: Leo

Today I've read two news stories about people not practicing common sense while out swimming. In both cases emergency services had to be called to rescue the poor sap who swam out too far. Those services cost us taxpayers thousands of dollars each and every time they are used, nevermind putting those rescuers at risk to save your stupid butt. Please stop being idiotic and know your own swimming abilities. If you can't handle the tides around here, stay close to shore or better yet, hang out in a pool! —tax paying lifeguard

To the cyclist I cut off on the corner of Edinburgh and Dublin St, I'm sorry. It was my fault. I did a rolling stop and didn't see you. I have been on your end of this type of mistake, and I am really sorry. —No Excuses

I'm delighted we have a Jazz Fest but did someone decide to reorient the speakers this year or just crank up the volume? I live in the Dartmouth Cove area and the evening performances sounded like they were in my back yard. This was never a problem in past years. What gives? —Sleepy all week

Axe! Axe! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling
Adjusting the baggy trowsers just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a geezer in fire or lime.-
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the #10 Westphal that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Axe smells nice and people enjoy how you bathe in it. —Sid Caesar

I am stoked that you're out having a fun time with your pup and not just keeping it locked up inside but I am begging you to show a basic level of respect. Being a dog owner doesn't mean you can just act like a total piece of shit. Two tiny things you can do to be a decent person and dog owner:

1) That fenced in dog park by the Commons/Centennial Pool is for service dogs only. You're straight up human garbage if you think that just because it isn't being used you can bring your greyhound, pitbull or whatever in there to run around. It's empty because service dog owners can't go in there because you assholes have taken it over. If you prioritize your own wants over the needs of service dogs and their owners then you need to take a serious look in the mirror.

2) Stop taking your dogs to Conrad's beach and letting them off the leash. I am happy folks have discovered the nicest beach in the HRM but it's also the habitat of the Piping Plover, a protected species. When you bring your dog there and just let it run around off leash its digging up the places where these birds live. Their nests aren't up in the grass, they're on the beach just above the high water mark. When your dog is out there digging around and playing s/he's destroying the homes of a species that might not exist in a decade or two. Just take your dog to Point Pleasant or a lake or even bring it along to Conrad's but keep it on a leash and stay near the entrance. —Just please stop being an asshole

I am fed the eff up with healthcare in this godforsaken province! I am a 30-year-old woman who is facing losing her job because I have a chronic illness. An illness that requires a procedure for official diagnosis to get the treatment required to live day-to-day. Guess what? IT IS A FREAKING TWO-YEAR WAIT LIST to see GI and get a colonoscopy! That is insane. That is not okay and it is wrong. There is no option for me to pay someone to have the procedure done even if I COULD afford it, so I have to sit here and rot for two years. I have to give up my job I love because I just cannot do it from the effing toilet now can I?! This is a real piss off. I am sure there are people much sicker then I am waiting for these things. Yes it is AWESOME it is free...but what is the point if during the wait period someone dies or has zero quality of life? I just can't take this anymore! —ShitterisFULL!

I read the poster for the "Paws Here on Quinpool" campaign in disbelief: this is a terrible idea. It's bad enough to have untrained, unsocialized dogs jostling or slobbering you or crapping on the sidewalk—now we are expected to put up with this in our local businesses too? Dogs are dirty. They are all too apt to "mark their territory." They are animals with teeth and claws, and can be frighteningly territorial. (This is why I no longer go to Point Pleasant Park, which has degenerated into an anarchic dog park.) I find most owners can't or won't control their dogs. Some people are terrified of dogs, and even if you think this is laughable or irrational, such people's feelings should still be respected. Dogs do not respect people's personal space. Dogs trigger people's allergies and possibly life-threatening asthma attacks.  Where sanitation is concerned, whether hardware store or bank or café, it's all the same: animals DO NOT belong in our local businesses. —I just want to shop in peace

July 12th 2015. Just a reminder that this is the day you ruined my life and forever changed it. Many things have changed. You created a change in me. Police enable rapists. The justice system enables rapists. Universities enable rapists. —D