Why do men think it's okay to hit on me at work? I am behind a counter, dressed practically in a freaking nun's habit by today's standards and I swear I am in no way inviting this kind of interaction - unless not wearing a ring is considered an invitation? Let me spell it out for you: I am friendly because I work in customer service. I have to laugh at your not-so-subtle remarks because I am paid to do so. What I would really like to do is punch your face. Get over yourself. —Could you just treat me like a person instead of a piece of meat? K thanks

Seriously... I left you nearly two years ago for the better opportunities of the west and it seems EVERYBODY is following suit. How did I ever think I'd return? Did I naively, blindly, or drunkenly flitter my way through my undergraduate years without fully appreciating you? Because for as much as I've been thinking about you lately you seem damn certain to keep me from coming back. I wish you would get yourself together Atlantic Canada and quit forcing your skilled youth out. Because I tell you, I'd give just about anything for those days back. I make so much more money here, I live in a nicer place, I can afford better food, heck even the dating scene is better. And I'd give it all up again just to dip my feet in an ice cold ocean, rip my new jeans sliding down Sackville street in winter, see my favourite venders at the market, wait for a late bus in the never-ending rain, eat lunch on the hill, make eye contact with somebody on the street and NOT think they must be crazy, walk the mudflats, walk ANYWHERE instead of driving, or just hear a fiddle or a bagpipe again. But I'm likely to get stuck out here, just like everybody else you couldn't support. And my children won't grow up in the culture of their ancestors, but in the more profitable and amalgamated society that is the rest of Canada, and they won't know you. This is where I lose my heritage… —Want to go home

You rode a bike the day after the big ole snow-dump, thaw and freeze event that happened earlier this week. The roads were completely covered in ice. Not just patches, but complete skating rinks.

You made the turn from Oxford to Inglis and you went tits up in the snow bank and a car almost hit you (you were also riding in traffic which would have been fine in suitable weather).

You then got up and looked at the driver of the car with this look of bewilderment and stupididty, as if she did something wrong.

You did something wrong - you rode a bike on a skating rink with no helmet. You also provided me a good laugh, becuase all you can do when someone is the victim of their own stupidity is laugh. —LOLly

When you dig a trench across a busy boulevard like Lakelands Blvd, between St. Margarets Bay Rd. and Chain Lake Dr., would you mind filling it back in and paving over it so that it doesn't have a 3 inch drop, like the one just past the coffee joint named after a deceased NHL player? It would be so much more pleasant for people who drive over the trench afterwards, who wouldn't have to experience that sudden jolt to the spine. Thanks in advance !!! Hugs and kisses….. —Big D

with so many things right...you look for something wrong. —spot-on

I worry about you when I'm not ruing your existence.

I don't worry about you very often. —scab picker

For almost a decade I lived along one of the BC roads featured in the reality show "Highway through Hell", and it seems they need to switch their filming location and focus on the roads and drivers of this otherwise wonderfully enjoyable city. Here are some tips for you select loco local drivers from a west coaster who has regularly driven through hell's highway.

1. Buy winter tires even if it isn't mandatory. I tried to rent a car my last visit and was shocked that only one company offered them at an additional charge because it 'wasn't mandatory'. Does it really take a law, a costly accident or worse, a life, for winter tires to be obvious in this weather? Be responsible and get them on your vehicle in early October.

2. Drive relative to the weather conditions. Heavy rain? Slow down, leave extra space and use your headlights. Snow or icy conditions? Slow down, leave extra space and use your headlights. Heavy fog? You get the picture.

3. Don't drive. Plan ahead! Read the weather report and when it looks to be bad top up with groceries, fuel your vehicle and stay at home until the roads are safer. Mid blizzard is not the time to run out of TP.

4. Don't act so surprised. You live in Halifax. It is winter. It's the season that comes between autumn and spring every year. Every single one. Since... the land bridge from Asia. It predates any human settlement in the area by thousands of years. This literally has happened every year for all of local human history. Figure this shit out already.

5. Finally, if all else fails, give up your licence or move somewhere else and leave the roads safe for others who know how to drive. If you are an ignorant, unprepared and oblivious winter driver you could easily kill yourself or someone innocent. Don't be that ultimate of an asshole. —Cant Risk Another Scary Haligonian

Remember "White Juan" about a decade ago? Yeah, I know it was 2004 but surely you can shake off the cobwebs enough to remember that the whole of HRM was shut down due to inclement weather, right? So, what did we learn? Not a damn thing apparently! I was completely appalled to see that retailers were once again forcing their employees, who by the way work for minimum wage (a standard pittance), to come to work on January 3rd, 2014. Despite the police advisories to stay off of the roads and Metro Transit shutting down all services, employees were REQUIRED to appear for their shifts no matter the excuse. Once again, we see corporate greed superseding the safety of humans during extreme circumstances. Is this what snow days have become in HRM? There are an exorbitant amount of reports of female employees being left stranded due to a lack of public and private transportation during blizzard conditions which left them to the resort of their own two feet and a heartbeat to walk for many miles. HRPD has reported bailing many stranded vehicles during that time. Is this a good use of their resources? How can we in good conscience say that this is right by any means? I say things need to change around here for the better starting with an actual concern for the well being of those people who work at the counters and cash registers in these types of situations. If we agree to outsource to other provinces, the USA and overseas for business then let's keep it real here at home. Waiting for a taxi that you can't afford and that may or may not come is not the answer. Employers need to be more accountable to their employees in this matter and provide safe transportation or accommodations for their employees in these types of scenarios. A contingency plan is an absolute must! Please contact your MLA for an amendment to NS Labour Standards regarding these situations. End rant. —Krayzee T

to whoever decided it was a brilliant and funny idea to jam a huge wad of shit not only in my door, but right on the handle...you are a piece of shit and i hope you get 3 years of painful constipation as karma. why the hell would anyone ever do that? but thanks for the frozen papertowl it was pressed into the fine deatila of my knob with... really helpful. you dolt —smelly hand

I want to give a big thanks to the HRM who cleverly tore up everyone's lawn to help pedestrians walk. If it wasn't for the huge piles of dirt and grass on the icy sidewalk you failed to keep clear, I wouldn't have something to step on to avoid falling right on my ass on my walk home. —Thanks, no thanks