Lubbock residents are uniquely skilled at responding to minor problems with a mix of deep sighs, quiet acceptance, and just enough complaining to be therapeutic. Nothing is ever an emergency. But nothing is ever fine, either.
Take traffic, for example. A single lane closure doesn’t cause chaos so much as a citywide emotional shift. People adjust their departure times by 20 minutes, announce the inconvenience to everyone they see, and then proceed as normal while insisting the roads are “a mess.” They are not. But the idea of them is.
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