He's smiling now...but try to steal the puck from him.
Posted on 04/03/2015 1:56:24 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Every August my family embarks on that great American ritual: the road trip. And we always head north. Canada may not be the most exotic of destinations, but sometimes, exotic is overrated. Canada tempts us with familiarity, blissfully cool weather and, most of all, a deep reservoir of niceness.
We experience Canadian nice as soon as we reach customs. The US border guards are gruff and all business. The Canadians, by contrast, are unfailingly polite, even as they grill us about the number of wine bottles we’re bringing into the country. One year, we had failed to notice that our 9-year-old daughter’s passport had expired. They, nicely, let us enter anyway. The niceness continues for our entire trip, as we encounter nice waiters, nice hotel clerks, nice strangers.
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The BBC can certainly teach us how to be better child abusers, if recent history is any guide.
I dearly love my time in Canada and I have another summer trip already scheduled. That said, you have to watch ‘em, because they’re plotting, always plotting, polite on the surface but with a bitter, evil intent underneath. They’ve sworn a blood oath - they’re going to get us back for Gretzky.
Have they never heard of the Mckenzie brothers?
I’ve taught a number of seminars in Canada, and they really are on average nicer than Americans.
Let’s send the FR religion forum there. Maybe some of it will rub off.
Is there really no snarkiness in Toronto or Vancouver or Ottawa? How much of this is an urban-rural thing and how much is based on the US-Canada difference? And how much would be an old cities versus new cities distinction, with Canadian cities more like America's newer and less rude urban areas?
He's smiling now...but try to steal the puck from him.
Want to see their customs people not so nice? Go up there on business and tell them you’re there to work.
So that’s why they’re building a new bridge across the Detroit river. To ease their invasion.
It’s a myth that people are nicer in Canada.
I made the mistake of a misphrasing my purpose when I went to Ottawa for a 2 day business trip. Spent close to an hour with the "friendly" customs people before we got things straightened out.
Why is that a problem? Canada has the right to protect her borders and enforce her citizenship and employment laws.Who knows if we can learn something from them about "niceness"? But it sure sounds like we can learn how to defend our southern border from them.
Of course they’re nice. They want you to spend your money there. Please leave your guns at home, though.
Yes they can! Just send me a couple of cases of Beer!
I once spent 90 minutes at a border crossing watching Canadian customs officers literally pull the trunk of my car apart,demand the password to my laptop and asking me dozens of questions about firearms.They weren't abusive but not exactly "friendly" either.They eventually let me enter and I've been admitted without problem a dozen times since.On the dozens of occasions I've entered a foreign country it's the only time I've ever had a problem.
When I asked why they did it they just said "routine".I have a *very* common name so it could be that someone with my name was on some kind of watch list.
To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.
Canada Ping!
Nothing compares to small towns for friendliness, but both Torontonians and Montrealers are very friendly in my experience. As a point of reference, bear in mind that Toronto is almost the exact same size as Chicago.
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“Niceness” has no place on the Religion Forum.
People that are lost in iniquity need the scriptures, not politically correct blather.
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