Cindy's Two Cents

I've never taken the rivalry between Edmonton and Calgary too seriously! they both have their positives and negatives! Of course I'm biased towards Edmonton because that's where I'm from. I've even had friendly banter with Calgarians during my various travels. I used to always think the rivalry between the cities was light-hearted. But I will NEVER forget the time I was in Calgary and watching this Calgary charity event on tv. Someone from Edmonton phoned in and made a generous donation, and as soon as they got off the phone - the Calgarians running this charity show completely ridiculed Edmonton and laughed about the person that made the donation. I was shocked! my Aussie husband was with me, and he was completely disgusted!!! that's when we knew that most of Calgary has a very mean-spirited view about it's friendly neighbours to the North!! I get mad even to this day when I think about that incident! that's the height of ungraciousness and it's ...

I didn't really want to start off right away by ranting, but I must comment on the bad drivers in this city!!! I consider myself a VERY good driver! I'm courteous , I stick to the rules, I do the speed limit..mostly (okay sometime the accelerator pedal gets a bit heavy), etc. But in this city - omigosh they make me mad almost every day! There are 3 main groups - the smallest group are the decent drivers, then you have the dawdlers who think it's perfectly acceptable to go 10 or 20 kms under the speed limit during rush hour. Then there's the maniacs who think they are in the grand-prix - cutting people off, tailgating etc! Now the last two groups never understand the merge concept, they speed up if someone is safely trying to move to their lane, they don't get round-about rules (aka: traffic circles) etc. NO ONE ever thanks people for letting them in - I've seen less than a handful do that in the 11 years I've lived here. Oh the list goes on! Basically...

Wow! this is really exciting, my first blog! I've finally caught up a little bit with technology! I can't believe I can just post my opinions on the web for all to see! I'm someone who even gets excited about doing surveys for companies, so this is really great! I have so much to say! but this is all I'll say for now! Talk again soon! :)