Linda's Canadian Adventure

As promised I will write about some Canadian habits that I found interesting. First the traffic, although Vancouver is a very busy big city the traffic is very relaxed. No fingers or yelling, no very polite. Linda and I were away for the day with Mike’s big volvo. On the way back we were in rush hour and Linda knows how stressed I can be in a car, but she remained calm. At one point we had to move three lanes over to the left, an obstacle I can’t overcome and I wanted to stick my head out of the window to convince the people on the road with my charm to let us through. Linda just smiled, put her turn signal on and glided from lane 4 to lane 1. I was lying at the bottom of the car, but everybody just lets you go through, the way it’s supposed to be. Another time, when we were away together again, I saw three rows of people standing on the side of the road, three very neat rows, each with a few metres in between. On my question what these people were doing there Linda replied: “they are just waiting for the bus”. Well, my jaw dropped and I got a fit of the giggles. Can you imagine here in Holland, we are standing in a row at the busstop, here it is pushing, fighting for a spot, elbowing and thronging. Yes, earlier, in elementary school on the school square, at the buzzer we would stand in line until the teacher came to pick us up, but at a bus stop, pfooffff no way. It just shows how different things can be in another country and I can tell you more, but that’s for next time.