When I lived in Canada, people often asked me where I was from, as traces of my southern accent suggested I was not from there. If I answered, “I’m from the US,” I got a cold shoulder. If I said, “I’m from Texas,” their eyes would light up and I’d be peppered with questions about the old West. It was as if Texas were not part of the US.
The only time I ever faked a Canadian accent was when the wife and I were vacationing in Amarillo. We were walking into a drugstore when someone spotted our Ontario license plates and said, “Welcome to the United States.”
Rather than embarrass them, we put on our most Canadian accents and said, “Thank you very much.” LOL
You should have said “We’re aboot to buy a bag of potato chips”.
:)
We work the fair in Lynden, WA and get a lot of Canadian customers, or at least to...their attendance fluctuates with the Loonie... Just like us Americans, some are very nice, some are awlfully ride and others inbetween.
I like joking with Canadians saying they sit up there...watching us...stealing our television signals and sending us bad comedians... An obvious joke that some take very seriously...Ha!
I always remember, that Canada were those British that fled the Colonies, not wanting to be part of that Freedom Train...
But then Western Canada is different than the eastern part. Much like the U.S.
Out in the west, people had to tame the wilderness filled with mountains, forests and rugged frontiers...It takes a determined individual to scratch life out of the ground and make something of it...Some of that rugged frontierism still exists, as well as it does in the Western U.S. Although it is being diluted.
” the wife and I were vacationing in Amarillo”
Now there is the story not told.