Oh, Canada. You’re so respectful.
We visited the Parliament buildings here in the provincial capital today. They’re regal and beautiful on their own, but leading up to them is the most beautiful, expansive garden space. It is mostly lawn, but peppered with the odd fountain or bed of flowers here and there. As you can see by the sign, there’s been some issue with wet conditions of late and the grass is off limits. It was a moment of national pride for me when I read it. As I said to the LB, “I love Canada! They just need to post this sign that says ‘don’t go there’ and everyone reads it and thinks ‘okay, we can’t go there.’ In America, you’d need a barbed-wire fence and guard dogs and even then there’d be assholes on that grass.”
Sure enough, those lawns were empty!
P.S. It reminded me of one of my favourite jokes.
Q: How do you get 100 Canadians out of a pool?
A: Okay, everybody out!
March 28, 2010 at 12:32 pm
So fucking true. We Americans would be lying down asleep on it. Just how we roll. However, I think it’s in large part because most of us can’t read.