The Crazy Rants of Samantha BurnsMy Canadian-ness Article For Today: Tuesday Edition
Found this and thought it was too good to ignore: Only in Canada
Only in Canada......Is the Senate of Canada sustained by protocol, alcohol and Geritol
Only in Canada......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
Only in Canada......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
Only in Canada......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
Only in Canada.....do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet coke.
Only in Canada......do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
Only in Canada......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
Only in Canada......do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.
Only in Canada......do we buy hot dogs in packages of twelve and buns in packages of eight.
Only in Canada.....do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.
Only in Canada......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.
Only in Canada......can you buy Tylenol containing codine without a prescription. In fact, Jane Fonda was once stopped at the U.S. border for trying to take it home.
And, perhaps the saddest part is that all of these are truths.
Comments
Aside from (obviously) the last one, that entire list could have been retitled "Only in the USA..."
Either our countries have more in common than many would care to admit, or Pittsburgh was annexed by Canada when I wasn't looking.
Posted by: Dave in Pgh. | November 29, 2005 11:38 AM
Well walgreens in US makes you walk to the back to get your meds to. Maybe if it was the other way around we would have less sick people.
Posted by: Jeff | November 29, 2005 01:33 PM
A lot of these are true for the US, well, at least NY. Most drugstores here require a trek to the pharmacy dept. Some Duane Reade's have them downstairs (no elevator that I ever saw).
I think the hot dogs/buns thing is true here, too.
Ditto the banks and their pens, handicapped parking spaces, etc.
Posted by: Shelly | November 29, 2005 04:16 PM
shhhh! guys! The Canadians aren't supposed to know they've been annexed until we get rid of the OTC codine!
Posted by: Flannel Avenger | November 29, 2005 04:24 PM
Heh. Thanks for the post. But, I think a few of those observations are universal...
Posted by: Howard Larson | November 29, 2005 06:12 PM
It's true -- most of these things, at least the bad ones, are true in the US too ...
Posted by: brykmantra | November 30, 2005 06:20 PM