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Some of the posts on this board from our Canadian neighbors in the "Great White North" seem to be chock full of what could be described as "American Envy" A recent post by Doghouse Express describing American owned vehicles as being decreipt and unsafe with bungee corded loads and 2x4 bumpers was hilarious! Doghouse paints an amusing picture of Americans as being uncaring killer hillbillies with little regard for other motorists. This post and others from our Canadian brethren trying to pick apart things US is always good for a chuckle. It's usually composed in a somewhat stuffy, Victorian prose which sounds like a stern lecture from a grandma. Perhaps their slavish devotion to a long-obsolete, useless monarchy 3000 miles away from their own shores gives them that look-down-their-nose prissy attitude of effete snobbery. Couldn't be that there's a little bit of jealousy there, eh? Most of the US expediters I know HATE to go to Canada with a load, so rest assured that many of us are only in your pristine paradise for as long as necessary, and back out as soon as possible. As far as the American people having the same type of attitude towards our cousins to the North, actually it never comes up, because most Americans don't really know you exist. A trip to Canada means Niagara Falls to most of us in the US, and we don't give your whole country a lot of thought beyond that, except to maybe someday invade and annex it to the US. That would probably only take a long weekend.
As far as the unsafe US vehicles that enter the pearly gates of the Eden known as Canada, please excuse the ignorant yokels behind the wheel, just as we'll forgive those cars we see down here with Ontario plates doing 85 mph on our interstates shortly before they're pulled over by unsympathetic American cops who don't realize that it's normal behavio(u)r around Toronto. It would seem that the Canadians would at least be a little grateful that they are motorized to begin with because it doesn't appear that there is a Canadian nameplate on their own vehicles. All foreign owned, eh?
(Except for the Beaver 500 and the Maple Leaf Maxi-van)
In closing, please cut us some slack, folks! A few more years of Democratic Party leadership and we'll turn this country around, and finally be able to walk the Socialist path that our friends up North have taken. LOL
As far as the unsafe US vehicles that enter the pearly gates of the Eden known as Canada, please excuse the ignorant yokels behind the wheel, just as we'll forgive those cars we see down here with Ontario plates doing 85 mph on our interstates shortly before they're pulled over by unsympathetic American cops who don't realize that it's normal behavio(u)r around Toronto. It would seem that the Canadians would at least be a little grateful that they are motorized to begin with because it doesn't appear that there is a Canadian nameplate on their own vehicles. All foreign owned, eh?
(Except for the Beaver 500 and the Maple Leaf Maxi-van)
In closing, please cut us some slack, folks! A few more years of Democratic Party leadership and we'll turn this country around, and finally be able to walk the Socialist path that our friends up North have taken. LOL