Can I vent?

[JohnKleeb]

Everything is tooooooo expensive around here. Its 150 dollars I beleive per year if you wanna park your car at the school year round, 50 dollars for prom unincluding limo, dinner, etc, around 80 bucks for senior dues, oh and it was 50 dolalrs for our after party at the local Y. Seems like its gonna be pretty pricy to get a place for the beach week too. Sigh being a little less affluent than the majority of your peers is kind of a pain.

[Cannikin]

1. Kind of a pain? Its a MAJOR pain

[JohnKleeb]

3. Yeah understatement

It really sucks, what do the people who make these plans thing that my parents have post graduate degrees and make in the 6 figures both, I got news for them, they dont.

[tigereye]

2. well

you can all chip in for a place... that's how we do it in my family!

[JohnKleeb]

4. It would still be a lot

Everything is so much.

[asthmaticeog]

5. Not to get all old man on you,

but at least the money you're shelling out is for fun shit. Wait 'til you have a $250/mo car payment and have to pay $150/mo for a parking space where you work. Perspective is all I'm saying, John. In a few years, the money you spent won't matter at all, but you'll have had a blast that you'll remember until you get Altzheimers.

[JohnKleeb]

10. I know

Just what the hell, anyhow I need to find a place to say in a couple weeks because I am not gonna just stay here all week.

[Lauri16]

6. That's unreal

Maybe a dumb question here, but what are Senior Dues?? I'm just a chick from the sticks, i've never heard of anything like that.

[JohnKleeb]

8. It pays for my cap and gown when I graduate

[Lauri16]

11. Like I said

That's unreal.

We didn't have to pay for ours. But then i'm going back to the 80's and a very small town. All our stuff like that was paid for by fundraisers from 7th grade on. Any money that's left gets willed to the next class.

Hope it all works out for you! :)

[JohnKleeb]

12. I got the dues paid but

still damn its messed up to me at least, I guess they expect us to pay more because this area is wealthy as hell, but while I feel privileged I really have never felt that wealthy.

[Lauri16]

13. You're right, it is messed up

Wealthy area or not.

[RandomKoolzip]

7. Let's talk health care, shall we?

I think it's PERFECTLY reasonable that if you get a disease, through no fault of your own, that you should have to lose your house, possessions and all your earnings to pay to treat it. That's the free market!

I also think it's PERFECTLY reasonable that wages should never increase, but the cost of all goods and services should skyrocket. Why not? That's the free market!

In other words, Kleeb: wait 'till you're thirty. Then you'll be venting so much you'll look like Swiss Cheese.

[JohnKleeb]

9. Thanks Ayn Rand I needed that

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