Is it just me or are the prices in thrift stores getting ridonkulous? I looked at a faded cotton maxi dress—38 bucks! It's not even in season!  A fall jacket with fake fur trim—35 dollars.  A purse with a broken zipper, scratched hardware and dirty lining: 10 dollars, not even that great of a brand name.  I asked the snotty sales girl to drop the price but she said no! They'd rather put that stuff back on the shelves to sit there and collect dust than give you break on the price.  These "thrift" shops even have the nerve to operate under the guise of charity, when in actual fact, they are greedy corporations. Their products are all donated, making their costs zero and making their profit 100 percent. There is no need to gouge their customers who are low income people—the very people they claim to be helping.  I could buy this shit from Walmart brand new for much less. I am done! I will never shop at your stores again and I will sooner set my shit on fire than ever donate anything to your "thrift" stores. —Doing All My Future Thrifting Out Of Town

A note to all overconfident dog owners walking their furry beloved off-leash…stop! Lots of people don’t like dogs, or are terrified of them. These people can’t be expected to peacefully coexist with dogs if some dog owners aren’t respecting the leash laws by walking their pup off leash. These laws are there to protect everyone, including the dogs and too often I see misguided owners whose love for their dog blinds them to the fact that their dog is an animal.

It’s naive and dangerous to think you can control an animal 100 percent of the time. They have instincts and just because something bad hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean it won’t. Some of us have shelter dogs who have lived a scary life and when your free-range fur baby approaches them, it makes them nervous and may even start a fight. Some of us don’t want other dogs sniffing our dog. Some of us don’t like your dog taking a deuce on our lawn while you're 30 feet ahead and don’t notice. HRM has lots of designated leash-free spaces you can gleefully frolic with your pup. Otherwise, please respect your dog, my dog, your neighbours, and the law by keeping fluffy leashed. —Tired of Free Range Fidos

I don't get it. I carefully park leaving equal space on either side at 5:30 in the AM. You felt it was your fucking right to gouge my car door on the passenger side. Why? We are all working stiffs that have to park along that fence. Why would you do such a nasty thing? —Clueless Commuter

I can only assume that the average Dartmouth apartment does not include luxuries like running water or laundry rooms. What else might explain the overpowering nostril assault of armpit, crotch, stale cigarettes, and weed wafting from the masses on public transit past the bridge?  C'mon Dartmouth dwellers, let's have a personal hygiene moment every now and again—can’t let those Haligonians think we have no pride! —A Rare Bathing Dartmouthian

What would you think if you read the following on a menu?: “Enjoy a bottomless coffee with your meal” (There is no price listed beside this, despite all the other beverages on the page having listed prices).

Well, I think the average person could reasonably assume that the coffee was included in your meal so long as you purchased one.

No, in fact, the coffee was just under four dollars after tax and amounted to about the size of a medium Tim’s. Now, I will say that the server was outstanding—very friendly, prompt, etc. 10/10 on the service. And the food was pretty good too, 7/10 there. Nobody who works there is responsible for the menu and honestly, if the price was listed I probably would have still bought the coffee anyway.

I just really dislike feeling like I've been tricked by an establishment. Fix your menu to reflect the actual price of the items people are ordering. Especially since the first thing they ask when you're seated—before you even have the chance to see a menu—is "do you want a coffee”? Were it not for the outstanding customer service I had there (still paid for coffee and tip on top), I'd not be back. —Misleading Menu Makes Me Moody

Whoever is responsible for the transit changes really does not like people. Why would you change the number 9 to 29 and the 6 and 20 to 9A and 9B? Why not just leave the 9 as the 9 and do whatever you want with the 6 and 20. Cause it is just going to confuse people. I am just waiting for it. And winter is coming lol...going to be inundated with calls about people from the terminal getting on the wrong bus. —Transit Changes

Okay, this is a rant to all those people who go to 24 hour gas stations. I think you should really pay attention to it. 1. We are working. Just because we are not standing right by the cash register, doesn't mean we are off somewhere, sleeping or purposely ignoring you. 2. If it says door is locked, it means that, you are not that special, I am not letting you in and 3. If you don't know what you wanted, why did you show up knowing the door is locked? Seriously. —Late Night Worker

OK, I’ve been using the Google maps/Halifax Transit feature to find my way home these days. The other day, the bus was “on time.” When I boarded the bus, I decided to leave the real time tracking on the screen instead of closing the app. I found that it was odd but I watched the blue dot progress from stop to stop on the screen…“on time”…meanwhile my actual location was as much as two or three stops behind the blue dot. My conclusion was simple: maybe the blue dot is like a pace car and the bus doesn’t show as late until it falls way behind. Makes sense, right?

Well, today I was watching the screen say “on time” and the bus showed up 6 minutes early...meanwhile, the screen kept saying "on time.” You know what I think? I think this realtime tracking system is a total bullshit system. I think they should rename it the “swallow the blue pill” system. Total fiction. —Eff You Halifax Transit

I have lived in six cities in 15 years. Do you know what they all have in common with Halifax? Every city is full of bitchy drivers that can't stop crying about how the drivers in their city are “the worst.” STFU. —Quit Yer Bitchin’

Chalkboard signs outside cafés are one thing, but it's a whole other nuisance to have to read the same bad puns everyone's seen online every time we walk down the street. Write your own promotions. How hard is it? No matter how bad, at the very least it won't look like your business is being run by an attention-starved teenager. —Your Bad Marketing is Making Me Depresso