I've only been to Canada a few times. Your basic Niagra Falls, or underage drinking roadtrip to Windsor. Low key stuff.
I did go to Toronto once for business and aside from a sketchy travel companion, it was a pretty cool trip. (I stayed in the same hotel as Mario Van Peebles, Charles S. Dutton and one of the Backstreet Boys) I don't know if that makes the trip more or less cool.
Anyway...
I've just returned from the land of Gretsky and let me say this - I freakin' love Canada.
Does free healthcare just make for happier people? Are they more pleasant because even hotel tap water tastes like it came out of a flippin' forest stream? Does their kindness stem from from quaint pronunciations of "about" and "process"?
Don't know. Don't care. But I think I want to live in Canada. This is how I imagined I'd find the people of Montana (ack, still haven't made it there) But unfettered by, what I call, the Entitlement Issue of Americans. Who do we think we are, anyway? We've got it pretty good and yet we keep getting in our own way most days. And boy, are we grumpy for all our freedoms! (Do not lead me down that path this evening)
What I'm getting at is this - "Oh, Canada" really ought to be "Oh! Canada!" (a nod to my friend DG's love of exclamation points)
But to hell with grammar, Canada deserves a few more exclamation points in my humble opinion. I just freakin' heart Canada.
2 comments:
Oh, it's a hell of a country. And you haven't even joined a curling club yet.
Truth is, there is much to love about both the Great White North and these Excited States. But we could use a bit more humility down here now and again and realize there are a few things that other people might have figured out already. There's nothing wrong with ripping off good ideas.
Oh, right. I'm talking about humility. And we've got a guy who dresses in a cowboy costume from time to time leading us.
By the way, the people of Montana are nothing like the Torontonians you've just enountered. Perhaps like Albertans but not Toronto types. The closest thing you get to a moderate Canadian in the USA is a Minnesotan.
I will curl one day, oh yes, I will curl. Although I will tell you, my conversations in Canadian bars were almost entirely focused on beer and hockey.
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