You Know You're in Canada When...

[MisterCairo]

A number of "only in Canada" memes are making the news up here. Any fellow Canucks or travellers to the Great White North have any similar stories?


As a fun joke, you soak then freeze a pair of kakis and then freeze them onto a street:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/mystery-frozen-pants-calgary-1.3901942

 

[MisterCairo]

Finished work for the day, you drive your Zamboni (ice surfacing vehicle) home, stopping for drive thru at Tim Horton's (NHL hockey player) donuts:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/stony-plain-alberta-zamboni-jesse-myshak-1.3908294

 

[MisterCairo]

Alberta Provincial park authorities and the Mounties issue alerts about salt-licking moose:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/moose-licking-car-banff-1.3901298

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/moose-warning-lick-vehicle-1.3897044

 

[LizzieMaine]

You know you're in Canada when you start licking your lips at the thought of A&W poutine.

 

[ChiTownScion]

You know that you're in Canada because the passenger trains are clean and run on time.

 

[MisterCairo]

the passenger trains are clean and run on time.

Yup. Both of them...

 

[LizzieMaine]

You know you're in Canada when you cheer at a baseball game by slamming the folding part of your seat up and down to make a loud, banging noise that makes five thousand people in the stands sound like fifty thousand.

 

[ChiTownScion]

Yup. Both of them...

Now, in all fairness, the last three trips I've taken on Amtrak also featured clean trains and on- time performances. I just wish that the trains ran as fast as what I experienced on a corridor run last year, round trip, between Toronto and Montreal. Even my wife ("No trains. I'd rather fly.") was impressed. And the business class treatment, although pricier, was a lot nicer than what Amtrak offers.

 

[MisterCairo]

Now, in all fairness, the last three trips I've taken on Amtrak also featured clean trains and on- time performances. I just wish that the trains ran as fast as what I experienced on a corridor run last year, round trip, between Toronto and Montreal. Even my wife ("No trains. I'd rather fly.") was impressed. And the business class treatment, although pricier, was a lot nicer than what Amtrak offers.

More of a critique on how few trains we have. I do wish it could be expanded, beyond the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) commuter zone!

 

[belfastboy]

Finished work for the day, you drive your Zamboni (ice surfacing vehicle) home, stopping for drive thru at Tim Horton's (NHL hockey player) donuts:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/stony-plain-alberta-zamboni-jesse-myshak-1.3908294

I think an even cooler and more Canadian aspect of the story is that the guy was driving his own personal Zamboni that he purchased to clean his own backyard ice rink. It don't get much more Canadian than that!

 

[MisterCairo]

You're at Tim Hortons donuts, you let your dogs run around for some piddle time, and you have to fight off a cougar attacking one of your dogs:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...s-cougar-at-tim-hortons-to-save-dog-1.3914210

 

[MisterCairo]

You're on the way out, and decide that ice skating down the street is a viable transport option:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-ice-skate-villeray-1.3913125

 

[MisterCairo]

A man is planning on playing at each and every one of Canada's approximately 1,500 curling rinks for fund raising.

For a new curling rink:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/new-brunswick-man-curling-every-club-canada-1.3901579

 

[MisterCairo]

Flooding the back yard rink with a hose is not efficient, so you build your own Zamboni:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/backyard-galamboni-1.3922451

 

[ingineer]

you are in either Canada or Maine

 

[MisterCairo]

you are in either Canada or Maine

You know you're looking at a great rental, if it comes with a free block heater connection in the parking spot...

 

[MisterCairo]

The squirrels have organized shop lifting rings:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/squirrel-chocolate-bar-thieves-1.3922343

 

[MisterCairo]

...when moose show up at a Tim Horton's Donuts drive-thru in Newfoundland:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/moose-drive-thru-tim-hortons-1.3923706

 

[hatsRme]

You know you're in Canada when you start licking your lips at the thought of A&W poutine.

Le Quebecois in you is showing, Lizzie... Now I'm (sort of) craving boudin, A?

 

[MisterCairo]

You try to impress your date, by driving your Jeep onto a "frozen" lake.

That isn't frozen:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jeep-sinks-into-lake-ontario-at-cherry-beach-1.3930210