You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy!™
Passive / aggressive economic protest.
What would the Dali Lama Do? What would Rush Limbaugh say?
In today’s tumbling economic world where values are diminishing and prices are soaring, we all have to deal with tough economic times.
The question is how do you deal with it? How do you deal with a price hike at the supermarket? Do you stab your hand with a plastic fork? Or do you mutter under your breath before pulling out your debit card?
“Damn,” you say just loud enough for the clerk to hear. “I cannot believe this milk is so damned expensive. It’s highway robbery.”
The clerk stares you in the eye with the passion of a sun drenched carp while waiting for you to swipe your card.
You exit the store and you feel victimized because you just got pick pocketed in your own Safeway.
DATELINE: DENVER, Colorado
It’s here in the Mile High City that an economics student found a creative way to protest the rising costs of higher education.
Instead of muttering under his breath or stabbing his hand with a fork, he got crazy. Instead of writing the University of boulder a check for $14,309.51 dude got a little creative, if not melodramatic.
The wise apple came into the tuition office and paid his entire spring semester with one dollar bills, a 50-cent piece and a penny.
“It kind of started as a joke,” Nic Ramos, a sophomore economics major at the University of Colorado at Boulder, told The New York Times . “But when I thought about it more, it’s just an absurd amount of money. I wanted to give the school a different way to look at tuition.”
According to published reports, Ramos dumped a 30 pound duffel bag on the counter.
He must have looked like a drug dealer working for
Tony Montana.
“Say hello to my little friend”
Apparently the gals in the bursar’s office had eyes the size of saucers.
“I walked in there and put it on the counter and said: ‘I’m here to pay my tuition,'” Ramos told 7NEWS in Denver.
“The teller looked in the bag and said, “Oh my gosh!” said Ramos. “And then all the other tellers came over and they couldn’t believe it.”
University spokesman Bronson Hilliard told The Times that it took three people nearly an hour to count the money.
Still, Ramos said the experience gave him “a much deeper appreciation for the money that my parents give me just to go to school.”
Can you imagine doing this every time you were pissed about the economy?
How much is that toothpaste? $2.48! That is outrageous.
Here is 24 dimes and 8 pennies. Now take that!
There is a limit to making a point.
It’s nice that the ladies took the money and spent hours counting it, but what if they hadn’t? What if they said, hey moron, we don’t play this game of stupid. Go back to your bank and stick your head up your culo.
I wonder what the people in line just behind this guy thought.
“What kind of “A-hole” brings a duffel bag to school to pay tuition”
Now-a-days a stunt like this can get you expelled or shot dead by trigger happy campus cops.
In the future, join the misery loves company campaign. I would suggest bitching like the rest of us, and paying with a check.
BUT…
You know what would have been cooler? Paying with a $10,000 dollar bill and 4 – $1000 dollar bills.
The women would have been impressed. Nobody pays with a Ten Thousand Dollar bill. Maybe you would have got a date out of it.
Wouldn’t that be crazy if you got lucky because your tuition went up. Rather than being a pest, you were perceived as cool in a James Bond shaken, not stirred, kind of way?
I think you failed this test. Maybe you need more schooling homey.
And that’s crazy!