Female driver / glasses / grey car/ Robie St. heading North at 11:30 on Friday Dec. 4. I can't be 100% sure but as I inched by you in the next lane it looked to me like you had your phone on your lap and were texting while you were stopped at the light. If I'd gotten your plate I would have been tempted to report you so that you at least got a warning about distracted driving. —Rex

HRM city council has asked for a report from staff re: taking over the maintenance of five cemeteries since their associated churches have closed and been torn down. Why should the city bear the cost for this? I assume the churches received money for the burials in the first place. The church still exists as an institution, even if that particular branch is closed. Let them pay for it. Does the city pay to clean up the contaminated soil of every lot that used to house a gas station? At least the gas stations payed fucking taxes. — Tired of paying for your hobby

We've got a city full of people who can't drive. Allstate has declared this burg has THE WORST DRIVERS IN CANADA!!!! Or walk properly without being consumed by their cell phones. Now they want to let loose a bunch of impatient idiots on Segways driving up and down Spring Garden Road? Downtown Halifax just got crossed off my list for places to go. —City Council: WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?

I dumped you because your peener was weird and you wouldn't go to the doctor about it. You were an alcoholic at the time and you stopped getting help and you never once contributed beyond groceries to the household. You never once paid a vet bill and underneath it all you are a very mean spirited person as you feel the need to blow up over the internet and post the meanest things I have ever heard about someone you "think" posted something (five years later I may add). May I add we dated for 5 months max....Seriously lol. I wish you well in life, honestly but get over it. —:)

So you gave my son a blinking light at the parade of lights. Turns out two kids ate the batteries when their parents were obviously keeping a close eye on them. Now I get a ten dollar Sobeys card for returning it. Thank you! I also tried to pry open the battery compartment to no avail. It chipped/split my nail and still wouldn't open. I guess this is a bitch about my own stupidity because my finger hurts like hell and bled a little bit. Peace and happy holidays to all, except my damn finger. —10 dollar sobeys card blinking light the richer

Why can't i get a boyfriend? is there something wrong with me. Everyone else has a boyfriend or special someone. I'm almost 30, and i can't even get a date. Sometimes i'm shy, but i wish someone would take a risk on me for once. —Thinking of settling into an old cat lady

The refugee coordinator is getting paid $1,800 per day to greet the refugees. They should have hired me and 30 of my closest friends, instead. I work for $50 per day (after taxes) as a Wal-mart greeter, and I promise to actually stay out on the floor and sincerely greet the refugees. —Disgusted Income Challenged Kanadian

They've lost their minds again in City Hall. A new animal by-law, A-700, seemed to come out of nowhere this weekend, along with a couple of other by-laws dealing with nuisances that are in themselves pretty alarming. Above all, A-700 preserves most of the serious flaws that made A-300 both useless and dangerous at the same time. So it is guaranteed to step up arbitrary—or rather, discriminatory, enforcement, not cure it. A-700 also allows for fines from $200 up to $5,000, without hinting how a judge might justify any amount in between, let alone decide which dogs should be killed, muzzled or "otherwise dealt with.” Anyone reading Schedule 2 would think the city is having an epidemic of viciousness—and they'd be right, but it's the two-legged kind! In its haste to fleece owners of errant dogs, Council forgot to remember that the law is too vague and sweeping to be enforceable, when it comes to basic terms like "dangerous" and "attack.” And perhaps worst of all, A-700 does NOTHING to address the wrongful confinement of dogs pending trials against their owners. We all know that dog seizures are anything but fair and consistent. It all seems to depend more on who the owner is than what the dog allegedly did. —Humane Halifax for BETTER Animal Control in HRM

Why would you tell him Santa isn't real, especially a month before Christmas? Maybe you don't understand him like I do, and I guess I can forgive you for that. It might be easy to look at him and say, "Well he's 13 years old, obviously he should know that Santa isn't real.” But here's the thing; just because he's 13 on the outside, doesn't mean he's 13 on the inside. Stop trying to force kids to grow up—stop trying to take away their imagination. I see a lot of myself in him, and the same thing was done to me when I was his age. “Grow up, stop watching cartoons, act your age, et cetera,” and believe me, you don't want him to turn out the way I did. —iCare

Why does everyone feel like they need to crawl over the bump on the bridge like an anxiety ridden 90-year-old woman? Obviously don't fly over it, but good grief it's not going to snap in half. Traffic crawls toward it and then once cars are past the "scary danger zone" they resume a normal speed. You'd think people would be over this by now. PS: The slower you go over the bump the higher the chance of that big thing dropping on you. Think about that. —Just Call Me Merida