TORONTO – An underground emblem for university arrears and the difficulty of paying them off has been discovered near the Rexall Centre at York University. According to authorities, the symbol is “very deep”, “very hard to escape”, and about “$25,000 in length.”
“This is a very sophisticated metaphor,” said Deputy Chief of Police Mark Saunders. “Someone had dug themselves into it excitedly and was then trying desperately to tunnel out of it. If we hadn’t intervened, it would have grown bigger and bigger.”
Toronto Police assured citizens that the analogy was not created for a “nefarious” purpose, such as terrorism or a drug lab, but instead to serve as a reminder of the gaping debt that most post-secondary students find themselves in and then try to climb out of, sometimes for a lifetime, and sometimes unsuccessfully.
The trope has since been filled in by authorities, symbolizing either the eventual reduction of the debt or conversely its crushing, unrelenting nature.
At press time authorities were speculating that whoever dug the analogy had eventually escaped, only to find themselves trapped in a much larger metaphor for the cost of a home mortgage somewhere in the east end.
