Here is an example of someone finally having enough.

A professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia says a severe shortage of parking spaces at the Halifax school has forced him to quit.

Forced him? So the lack of parking passes put a gun to his head and forced him?

Dan Middlemiss and hundreds of other Dalhousie staff and students lined up Monday to buy the first available parking passes.

After waiting for more than an hour, he decided instead to leave his profession of 31 years.

Man, you really have to feel bad for a guy who had to wait for more than an hour for something. The general population will be holding a rally very soon in his honour I am sure. Nope.

There must be more to this than is showing. Did he want to quit and just needed a reason? When you have taught for that long and you get set off by something so silly, there are deeper issues.

Dalhousie, in south-end Halifax, has 2,000 parking spaces for 17,000 students and 3,000 employees. Do the math. Everyone in Halifax wants to drive if possible because the transit system sucks.

This year, the rush on passes comes as the university changes its selling policy.

Instead of overselling general passes by 65 per cent, it’s now overselling by only 20 to 30 per cent. The idea is to have fewer people eligible for the same number of parking spots.

Sounds like the airlines to me and now there are more people on parking standby.

I guess Dan the man does not have to worry about parking anymore, now he just has to worry about what the heck he is going to do all day. Oh well, like I said, I doubt few will feel sorry for him, or even feel as though he stuck it to the man. I mean he is not saving the world, in fact, he just took one more car off the road driving down to Dal every day. For that, good work.

So would you quit your job of 31 years over having to wait for an hour to maybe get a parking pass?

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