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On Mon, 01 Jul 2019 15:44:52 -0300, wrote:

>On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 11:12:25 -0700 (PDT), GM
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>>I have to say that my only Canadian experience was visiting Expo '67 when I was a kid, SO many of the frogs were RUDE and HOSTILE when we'd stop in a small Quebec town and ask directions, etc....they simply oozed contempt for English speakers...
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>>Must have been a bit akin to how blacks might have been treated traveling throughout the pre - Civil Rights era US...
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>>The only "ruder" travel experience I've had besides that Canadian trip was when an officious East German in an adjacent seat on a 1978 Prague - East Berlin plane trip asked me, "OH, are you Canadian?", to which I replied, "No, I'm American"...he visibly recoiled and prolly would have moved seat had the plane not been full, lol...
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>>Best
>>Greg
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>Correct - we arrived by Cunard during Expo 67, we disembarked in
>Montreal but landed for a few hours first in Quebec City. My kids
>were little and we told them in a tourist shop they could spend $3
>each on a souvenir. My son wanted a little desk flag and asked the
>owner how much it was and the man pretended not to understand English.
>He was just 5 at the time and it annoyed me, so I took his hand and
>said 'come on all of you, the man here doesn't speak English so we'll
>go to one of the many other stores' could see by his face he knew damn
>well what I said and I turned back from the door and told him
>something he could do that was very rude, in French Kids didn't
>know what I was saying.

Let me guess... you told him in Français to shove all his flags up his
derriere... sideways and hang em from a rusty nail! (Brooklynese.)

>They were no better even a few years later but I think they have
>learned now that it doesn't pay to aggravate tourists, OTOH I hear the
>Floridians don't like snow birds from Quebec. So who knows.