We’re currently on stage 3 of any major project that takes place in Calgary: “pissing and moaning, part 1.”
Here are the stages:
1. Calgarians want/need/are told about a new project. (Much pissing and moaning about how badly this project is needed usually, but not always, precedes this stage).
2. The project gets started.
3. An extended period of pissing and moaning about the exorbitant cost and horrendous design of the project.
4. The project is completed.
5. A second period of pissing and moaning about the exorbitant cost, horrendous design, and terrible functionality of the project.
6. Outside observers comment favorably on the high quality/design/aesthetic/functionality/economic return of the project.
7. Ferocious, thoughtless civic pride. The project is the GREATEST example of this particular thing that has ever been, or at the very least better than whatever trash they have up in Edmonton, and anyone who says different is a goddamn communist.
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