Acronyms

Acronyms are used for the purpose of taking something long and complicated and making it short and incomprehensible.  Somewhere along the line we've confused incomprehensible with cool.  There are new acronyms being made on a daily basis, making life more confusing by the hour.  Sometimes I'm unsure what language these acronym-people are talking so to avoid being left out I'll start spellings words in an attempt to be part of the conversation.  "The W.E.A.T.H.E.R. says that there's a chance of S.N.O.W. tomorrow."

The city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan has a north side and a south side.  The south side commonly called south hill is generally only seen when a driver makes a wrong turn leaving KFC and gets trapped going southbound on a one way street.  The driver then returns back to the north side of town and purchases a GPS device so such an event won't happen again.  A few years ago, the people of south hill decided that they wanted to get some people over to their side of the city and breathe some life into the businesses business, Family Pizza or FP, on that side of town.

The plan was to have an entire weekend dedicated to the south hill.  Since they live south of the bridge connecting the north and south side of the city it was suggested to call the event "South Of The Bridge Days".  Only two people attended the meeting, real-life BFFs, and this name was quickly agreed upon.  Wanting to make the event sound cool and appeal to a younger demographic, while saving printing costs all at the same time, an acronym was put on a huge banner.  It proudly declared "SOB Days", greeting whoever makes a wrong turn out of KFC.  After receiving a "big crunch combo", I accidently made the wrong turn and was greeted by this "SOB Days" sign.  Expecting to get empty beer bottles thrown at my car or have somebody pick a fight, I decided to quickly turn around and go back to the more civilized north side.  But remembering the Family Pizza, I thought, "Why not see if they have a promotion on for SOB days?"  It turns out that the only business on south hill decided not to participate in the event but there was at least a dozen balloons decorating a street lamp post or so I'm told that there was until some SOB stole them A.L.L.