O' Canada
A while back I purchased a super hi-tech swim suit for my son. His old one had disintegrated so much that you could see crack cleavage. Let it be said, at his age, I'm not sure this suit actually makes much of a difference for cutting his times. However, psychologically, it's a huge esteem builder. He "thinks" he is faster and therefore pushes harder. So, the demise of the suit before long course season was not good. Note the word CHEAP: This is particularly important when your super-talented swimming seven-year-old daughter loses six suits in one year. No, we are not talking Target specials or Costco Speedo junk. When a child swims 4 days a week for 1 hour 15 minutes and then swims double practices in the summer, you need real swim suits. Each of those original suits cost $50-60 each.
My reaction was that I took all her cash at the time. Yep, mean Mommy. She had $51 saved in birthday money, and I took it all. I used it to buy 3 brand-new suits worth $60 each for $10-15 each--all on eBay. Yep, eBay rocks. Now, she has since lost one of those suits and I think she may get her cute Hello Kitty wallet raided agin. Personal responsibility people!
Back to my son, I got the Faskin Legskin for $80--a banging deal. However, I paypal-ed the money in March and still no suit. I checked and the seller was a bit slow. She shipped on April 4th from Canada. Let's do some math. Hmmm... It's April 14th. So, 10 days has passed and according to Canada Post, my suit is still in New Brunswick. What the Fuck, Batman. Not even American book rate takes 10 days. Not even shipping to interior Alaska takes 10 days--I know I lived there. Are they using a moose to pull a sled. The irony is that the seller is in Vancouver. That is less than a 2 hour drive from here. Why in all holy goat balls would it be routed through New Brunswick!!
Two posts back, I said we democratic nations should take pride in our nationality. Errr...Canada...I don't know. I have many Canadian friends, but their important distinction is that they live here--in the GOOD old U.S.A. I am beginning to understand why. Heck, I know as many Canadians as Californians here in Washington and that's saying something. I heard the PM of Canada,a good few years ago, came here--TO AMERICA--for surgery. I thought it spoke to socialist medicine not being as good as free-market medicine at the time. Hmmmpf...Now I am thinking things work so slowly up there that he was worried the surgeon might take a dump before surgery and miss the whole procedure. Yep, that's right Canada. I'm calling you the most constipated country of all.
pssst: Hand over our suit soon, and I might take this post back. This is suit blackmail! You crazy Canadian suit-nappers.
3 Witty Comments For Me:
Maybe there was a "threatening cat" delaying your package.
that sure is an ignorant kinda thing to say...there are by the way far far more americans moving to canada each year than there are canadians moving to the usa.
Carlos, Carlos, Carlos...if that is your name since you seem to keep your profile/blog secret. I hardly think that 26 days to ship a suit from Vancouver to Seattle is anything other than constipated. I am sure many would agree.
You seem a bit defensive Carlos. Might you be a Canadian postal worker? As it were, you are quite mistaken with your immigration stats.
Go toodle to: http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/countrydata/data.cfm and check out the stats.
In 2001, there were 225,000 Americans living in Canada. In that same year, there were 660,000 Canadians living in the USA. Hmmm... To speed things up, I'll do the math for you. That's about three to one. Your statement in your comment is grossly wrong.
Old facts you ask? Well, apparently the USA updates their immigration facts and they are current to 2006. Canada, on the other hand, has facts from 2001 being the most recent. Case in point! Slow! Slow! Slow!
Infinitum, it has been well-documented that Canada had been experiencing a brain-drain. Anyone with the education and intelligence, leaves! As for American immigration, that has also been covered. Americans like cheap real estate and a good value. They purchase vacation homes and live well with their American dollars in Canada historically. It seems a huge portion of Vancouver is foreign owned. The other few thousand are the cowards and whacky liberals that left after the Iraq war/George Bush Inauguration.
Now that the dollar isn't doing so great against the Looney (sp? ignorant I know but, that's a silly name for currency), I expect a lot of the retirees will be coming home. As for the Canadian brain drain, who knows? Once you get a taste of the good life where packages take 3-4 days, why would you go back, eh? We'll see. If anything, those whacky Canadians are patient. They have to be.
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