- You design your Hallowe'en costume to fit over a snowsuit
- You live in a house that has no front step, yet the door is one metre above the ground
- Your snowblower gets stuck on the roof
- Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled in with snow
- You owe more money on your snowmobile than your car
- The 7-page local newspaper has 6 pages of Hockey News
- You know which leaves make good toilet paper
- The major parish fund-raiser isn't bingo, it's sausage making
- You can play road hockey on skates
- You know 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Construction
- The municipality buys a Zamboni before it buys a bus
- You understand the sentence: "Excuse me, could you please pass a serviette? I just spilled my poutine."
- You eat chocolate bars instead of candy bars and drink pop, not soda, and add ketchup, not catsup
- You can drink legally while still a teen
- To you Cuba is a cheap place for a holiday with good cigars and no Americans
- You get milk in bags as well as cartons and plastic jugs
- You know what a Robertson screwdriver is
- You know that Thrills are something to chew that "taste like soap"
- Just like any international assassin/terrorist/spy in the world, you carry a Canadian passport that's worth $50,000
Hong Kong Dollars
- You use a red pen on your non-Canadian textbooks and fill in the missing 'u's from labor, honor, and color
- You know Toronto is not a province
- Back bacon and Kraft Dinner are your favourite foods
- You don't feel the urge to purchase maple syrup at the airport
- When in Niagara Falls, you scoff at how pathetic the American Falls are compared to the Canadian ones
- You've plugged a car in overnight
- You didn't know US 7-Elevens don't sell Crispy Crunch
- You've defended your property from trespassers with a lacrosse stick because you don't own a gun
- You need a list like this to explain to you what it means to be Canadian
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