Cyclists need not apply

Hello After Hours. Sit down and I shall tell ye a tale of my woes

I am in my second year of a Fetac lvl 6 course. I cycle 10km each way every day to get to and from college. I have done so for the last 14 months, through wind and rain hail.

My college has:

1. No showers
2. No lockers or storage of any kind
3. No changing rooms

I arrive in the mornings, get changed in a cubicle in the toilets, put my wet cycling gear on a radiator, and stash my dry gear in a utility closet.

Today I noticed, near the end of the day, that my cycling gear was missing from the radiator. After a short investigation, I discovered the vice-principal removed it, put it in a black bag, and left it with the porters.

I retrieved it from the porters and the vice-principal (and principal) told me I can no longer dry my cycling gear/runners on any radiator in the entire college.

I asked the vice-principal what I should do, to which she replied "Buy rain gear", with surprising hostility, and stormed off. I was just amazed by the entire situation, so I laughed and said "This is ****ing ridiculous" with a genuine smile on my face, to nobody in particular.

The principal brought me to her office, called back the vice principal, and forced me to apologise for using derogatory language in the general vicinity of the vice-principal. Then that was it. The topic was closed for discussion since I had used a bad word and needed to be berated like a twelve year old boy.

Granted, I should not have cursed. That was my mistake. I just find it a bit odd that they would make such a nonsense decision that affects only one student (on the wettest day of the year ).

So now my college has:

1. No showers
2. No lockers or storage of any kind
3. No changing rooms
4. Nowhere to dry your cycling gear