The Glass Tower. The breathalyzers at dances. The Lunch Shelter food. What do these all have in common? Students at Albany High love to complain about all of them. Sometimes the complaints are justified. And sometimes, they are just another classic example of the adolescent desire to…well, complain. Here is a list, in no particular order, of Albany High’s various objects and institutions that students gripe about on a daily basis, and complete with my personal opinion as to whether these complaints are justified. The complained-about objects are rated on a scale of one to ten, one being “quit complaining, you big baby,” and ten being “you’re right, that is annoying/boring/disgusting.”
The Lunch Shelter Food: Eh. It can be kind of funky sometimes (steer clear of the hot Cheetos, anything with that weird imitation-cheese substance, and meat products in general). But at the same time, no one’s holding a gun to your head and forcing you to do funnel shots of the lunch shelter chocolate milk. We have open campus at lunch for a reason.
Gripe-o-Meter Rating: 4
The Bathrooms: Ew. Bad. All bad. Even that pink powder in the soap dispensers smells disgusting. And about the hand dryers: granted, we’re saving trees, but we’re also being reduced to drying our hands on the insides of our sweatshirts rather than meticulously drying our hands with the air dryers for five minutes when we are allotted three minutes for our bathroom break.
Gripe-o-Meter Rating: 11
Breathalyzers at Dances: Time consuming, but probably a good idea. There’s a ton of ugly fallout when students drink at school functions, as proven by Homecoming 2005.
Gripe-o-Meter Rating: 2
Pep Rallies/Assemblies: Boring.
Gripe-o-Meter Rating: 7
AP Bio Homework: I can’t really speak for this one, because I’ve never taken this class. I was going to, but I dropped out as soon as I got wind of exactly how much homework I was expected to do over the summer.
Grip-o-Meter Rating: N/A
Musical Practice: I can’t dance my way out of a paper bag, so I can’t say I have any personal experience with this one either. But I imagine that dancing is physically challenging, even for those lucky enough to be equipped with a right and left foot instead of two left feet. But then again, the people in the musical are there because they chose to audition. Hmmm.
Gripe-o-Meter Rating: N/A
The Glass Tower: Good. No, seriously. Why are you shaking your head in disbelief? The Glass Tower isn’t hurting anyone, and everyone has had hours of fun complaining about how it’s pointless and stupid and ugly and a waste of money and should be taken down, and several hours more fun claiming to be or know the person who originally thought of the filling-the-glass-tower-with-balloons/jello/goldfish-senior-prank idea.
Gripe-o-Meter Rating: 1
LOL
the shelter food really isn’t that bad. at least it’s warm.
breathalzers = crap
definitely a 7
The glass tower causes a mini-greenhouse effect and warms all the rooms next to it, which can get annoying during the warmer days of the spring and fall, so it does “hurt” some people.
Breathalyzers are only crap if you’re drunk and don’t want to get caught. Otherwise they are quick and painless.
If the whine rating of going sober to a dance (or trying really hard to avoid the breathaltzers?) is a 7, then there’s a different problem. Is it the dances themselves?
Do the dances suck that much that going sober is a 7? And is that the fault of those who plan the dances or the fault of you (and all the rest of us who go to the dances and make them what they are…)?
hahaha. nice
just because people like to drink it doesnt mean its bad. the more you deprive people it just finds another way of getting people into different and harder drugs. and its not about being sober. going sober isnt half bad. but just because people got super trashed in homecoming they should have been the ones who been punished. Yeah i understand how bad it was, and people should think twice. But seriously it dumb and its really endorced other drugs while going to the dances.
If you really want to do drugs or drink that bad, just don’t go to the dance or do it at a different time. It might not seem reasonable to punish the whole school for a few student’s actions, but we’ve been given fair warning, and that’s what will happen. It’s really the only way the school can deal with it because it would be impossible to find out who has and hasn’t and just punish those who truely deserve it.
i have several friends who had to do AP Bio homework over the summer. I’m pretty sure that the entire summer, i only hung out with them once.
I would love it if we filled the glass tower with Goldfish! [not the food. the actually thing. athough the food would be cool too]
albany is hella ghettoe all ya ghettoe ppl hahhahhaa
lets complain about the fact that our principal and assistant principal have no clue as to whats going on in the school. lets complain about the fact that the only person who did something about it was immoni our bomb ass security guard. man i hate this school.
ap bio hw was horrible. it ruined my summer. = 9 or 10