You Know You’re In Canada When…
Posted by
tgirsch
A sign I saw while on vacation in the Canadian Rockies last week read as follows:
FAMILY SKATING ONLY
NO HOCKEY
And, of course, there was a separate open hockey rink about 30 yards away explicitly for that purpose.
Speaking of Canada, don’t feel bad if you don’t know what “Boxing Day*” has to do with anything, other than big sales at retail stores. Nobody up in Canada seems to have any idea, either. I asked several locals, to no avail. (Although it also doesn’t help that most of the “locals” in Banff are actually Australians, who have started to overrun the joint.) Anyway, much like the unending expansion of Christmas here in the US, it’s not enough to have Boxing Day any more. They now have Boxing Week sales.
In any case, I didn’t mind the discounts, because I was in lost luggage hell for the first three days of my trip, and had to do a lot of shopping…
* Apparently it has something to do with an old English tradition of employers giving gifts to their employees, or Lords giving gifts to their serfs, or some such thing. I read it on Wikipedia, so it must be true…
No hockey - that’s awesome.
Imagine a sign like that here.
In terms of necessity, it would rank between one in the Crawford ranch reading, “No books” and one in the Knicks locker room reading “No defense.”
Comment 1/4/2008
there was no hockey so people didnt bowl over the little kids
duh
Comment 3/25/2008
no idea what part of canada you were in cause we have boxing day and week sales here
Comment 3/25/2008
canadian.eh:
I know why the sign was there. It’s just that in most of the states, it wouldn’t be necessary, because the odds of a spontaneous hockey game breaking out are close to nil.
I saw the scene at the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise; the frozen “pond” was Lake Louise itself; they had groomed a section for family skating (where this sign was) and another for hockey.
Comment 3/25/2008