Place: Calgary, AB, Canada

Time: 2022-2023

When you’ve got a layover at the Calgary airport for what feels like the 10th time in three years and you’re click-clacking from Gate C to Gate B in your cowboy boots (unironically) because they’re too big to fit in your overflowing suitcase and you stop to have your traditional airport caesar at the only Chili’s you’ve ever seen in the wild and soon you’ll be travelling to the big chilly YYZ (you literally CANNOT WAIT to smell the TTC) but then your connecting flight gets delayed so you order 9oz of the finest chardonnay from the “cellar” at YYC and pop a couple pearls of THC and think of how funny it would be if you missed your flight as you doze off into a daydream about a previous layover where you had time to treat yourself to a nice dinner at the airport Marriott bar where you made friends with national franchise owner royalty (ahem, Canadian Tire) and convinced him to try his first old fashioned cocktail but this one was the kind that comes in an ostentatious cloche full of smoke and he’s so impressed by the experience he secretly pays for your dinner while you’re in the bathroom and it’s not even in a pervy way but a charming grandfather type of way so you give him a gentle hug as you head on your way and you realize that dammit, this might be the best airport on earth.