Friday, 24 January 2014

What "What Grinds My Gears - Calgary Edition" is all about


To start this off, I am going to mention that this particular blog was created for a GNED class at Mount Royal University, and yes it is a spin off from the adult cartoon Family Guy. Following this, the aim for this this blog is to rant about a mixture of stupid, silly, frustrating and very irritating things that happens around the city of Calgary and 'grind the gears' of pretty much every citizen of this beautiful city.

With that said a parental warning of sorts will have to be given before any rants can really begin, mainly because of the adult humor, the types of images being posted, as well as the topics maybe considered untasteful to those that are either too young to understand or were simply born without a sense of humor. So if you happen to be one of those members of the internet that happens to stumble upon this blog and find its contents offensive you then should click the “back” button in your browser and go back to doing what you normally do on the internet, you have been warned!

With the parental warning all cleared up, and everyone knows what to expect from the content found on this blog, do you know what really grinds my gears? All the small parking spaces that can be found throughout Calgary! It is understandable that the Calgary Parking Authority and various other businesses, that make money from people parking, want to fit as many cars in as possible in their lots to make an extra dime and so they make the spaces only big enough to fit a medium sized sedan. But this is ridiculous, seeing the amount of people in this city that drive trucks and SUV’s, myself being one of them, is huge! We would all love to be able to find a parking space that we could not only fit your vehicles into but also be able to get out of that parking stall after without having to conduct a 40 point turn (which for some drivers in this city is harder than brain surgery).

Now, some members of society might respond to that by simply stating that it is our fault for driving such a large, gas guzzling vehicle in the first place and that we should switch to something small and hippy such as a Honda Prius. But have those people ever seen how hard it would be to get a quad, a deer, as well four fully grown man into one of those tiny matchboxes, it simply would not work! Stay classy Calgary.