The best week in davis was two weeks ago…all the students had cleared out (presumably to terrorize the bay area and parts of socal), some of the locals were on vacation, and Davis was a quiet little ghost town where restaurant lines were manageable and driving through downtown didn’t include much risk of running over pedestrians (stopping for pedestrians is a good thing OF COURSE).
Well…that was two weeks ago. This week, well, it’s the end of everything good in davis. The students return en masse to wreak havoc on the town, flooding downtown davis cafés once again with their rowdy behavior and macbook totin’ presence. Parking at trader joe’s has once again become non-existent. The line at chipotle is now permanently out the door, and good luck trying to get a haircut at supercuts. Oh…did I mention the pool hall closes this week for winter-quarter book sales??
Wooosahhhh…
I suppose there is an unseen side to all of this…more students in town means more sales-tax revenue, which means the city can finally pay the landscaper to trim the grass at the local park so we can play ultimate frisbee and not worry about being tripped up by overgrown grass, which means less $ spent on pain-killers, which means lower profits for the pharmaceutical companies that make painkillers, which means layoffs at said pharm companies, which means the guy who was gonna send his son to Stanford or UOP will now be sending him to a public school like UC Davis, which means…yep you guessed it…more students (I love my logic sometimes…).
Post hoc ergo propter hoc…it’s a vicious cycle.
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hmm, same old same old here in woodland...
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