The PNE has come to an end for another year, and for another year we’re left wondering how could we have missed it again? It’s not like the awkwardly named The Fair at the Pacific National Exhibition lacks media attention and wasn’t on our radar. Heck, the Courier ran more stories on the PNE this year than stories about off-leash dogs, people protesting new condo developments, and new condo developments catering to off-leash dogs combined.
So what was it that prevented us from checking off all the boxes in our 2013 dream journal, along with join CrossFit and get a wicked bod, sing “Electric Avenue” at karaoke and stop complaining every day about the slowness….of….our….eight-year-old….work…com…puter?
Was it our aversion to large crowds? The lack of a Hall and Oates or Rick Springfield at the Summer Nights concert series? Our lifetime ban from the Superdogs show?
Sadly, when it comes right down to it, we just didn’t try hard enough. Sure, we talk about how much we like the PNE and how much we’d miss it if it ever went away, but the simple fact is we were too lazy, and on too many nights spent the evening drinking booze and playing Words With Friends with our significant other from different ends of the apartment, occasionally yelling down the hallway things such as “How the hell is ‘mako’ a word!” And for that we’re sorry. Sorry to the PNE, sorry to the band Foreigner, who apparently put on a great show, but most of all, sorry to us and the apathetic life we chose to live this summer. Seriously, though, how is “mako” even a word?
