Wednesday, July 29, 2009

An Allegorical Tale Pertaining To Civic Politics and Bridges

You need a car and you whine to Dad to buy you one until he relents. He gives you his Platinum card and tells you to buy what you need. You and your friends head straight to the Audi dealership and sit in the R8. Damn, yo. Your friend Blinky starts ragging on you and you start to feel a bit guilty. So you go to the Chevy dealership and sit in an Aveo. You begin to wonder if you need an R8, or if an Aveo will do the trick. It dawns on you that you could buy 10 Aveos for the price of an R8. You could give one to all your friends! Or you could buy 1 Aveo and spend the rest on crack. So what do you do?

If you buy the R8 you’re a selfish prick.

If you buy 10 Aveos for all your friends, you’ll be stuck driving an Aveo -- exactly like all your buddies -- until Dad ponies up for a new car, which might be never. And you’ll be a communist.
If you buy one Aveo and a lot of crack you’ll end up broke in rehab and still have a shitty car.

The moral of the story? I’m a selfish prick and Calgary is full of Aveo-driving crackheads.