I was going to come back and relate something I saw today, but when I get to quote someone else to contrast, it's just that much more special.[QUOTE="jun_aka_pekto"]
I have no idea about Quebec because I haven't been there yet and I'm only 30 miles away from Canada. But, the Canadians who visit here (plus those in my hometown back in NV) including the Frenchies strike me as well behaved. I certainly have no negative opinions of them.OrkHammer007
I was at Dunkin Donuts with my kids this afternoon, and we walked in right after a couple who had pulled up in a car with Quebec plates.Keep in mind that this is about 150 miles south of Quebec, deep in the heart of upstate New York, where we are only required to learn English.
They get to the counter, and the guy starts rattling his order off in French. Rapid-fire French. Even if you just took a few years of French in school, I'm sure you'd be hard-pressed to understand this guy.
The counter girl shakes her head and says, "I don't understand you."
The guy shakes his head, looking really pissed, and starts SCREAMING his order. In French. I wanted to smack him in the head gently with a tire iron at that point.
The girl at the counter (who looks like she's 16 tops) looks like she's about to cry. "I don't speak French, sir," she says.
So this bozo starts to make his order in English. Really slow English. Like he's talking to a mentally-defective person. The woman is looking at this poor girl like she's a scumbag who is forcing the guy to eat his own excrement. When they were done with their order, they pointedly took their stuff and stalked out without leaving a tip.
It's not the first time I've seen a variation of this act, either. They have to know we don't speak French here. They come here voluntarily, from a bilingual country that speaks English. There's no reason for the act, but it happens.
You didn't speak up? That seems like common decency to stop crap like that. At least in the US
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