Canadians Only Please! - Do you take your shoes off?

susieq321

I work in the US and at home I take my shoes off in the US not as much anymore I just honestly prefer being barefoot so I tend to slip shoes off fast anyway.
My favorite question is Thanksgiving... what do we have to give thanks for? I usually answer that we aren't american, we don't have george bush as our leader or what do you think the exact same thing you guys give thanks for traditionally a good harvest.... our is just earlier than yours for most of the country. Although I am so glad that cdns never really picked up on the green bean casserole thing or sweet potatoes with baby marshmellows... no matter where I am in the country when my friends invite me to those are served and i just don't get either of them... canned green beans, mushroom soup and fried canned onions.. ugh

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Heather



Dr Yau (TLBC)
Jan 7, 2002

Doddie63

Uhhhhhh! Susie - is it Canadian to criticize a hosts menu? or politics? As my brother always said when he wintered in Phoenix, "I am American too. All individuals living in North America are Americans". He always received a shocked look then laughter. And also, are our politics any less messy. LOL

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susieq321

Doddie,


Now when I say it I say it with a laugh which doesn't come through in an email and politics are politics... I don't have to like their leader or his actions and I am allowed to speak my mind and I do this about cdn politics as well. And lets face it there are very few differences in reality between cdns and americans and the way we see the world having lived and traveled long term all over north america, really there is little more than a border line and different govt's separating us.

I didn't criticize a host, I criticized two god awful dishes in my mind.... I would never critique my hosts menu during dinner or to them, if offered something I don't enjoy I decline it with a polite no thank you, everywhere I go for holiday dinners these are family favorites... I don't have to eat what I don't like and as I said I am just thankful it never caught on in Canada and regardless of how much I love my hosts I don't have to love everything they serve me. And if they ask me about a dinner even if the served nothing I enjoyed eating I would still tell them truthfully the company makes the meal..... because as a general rule I don't eat meals with people that I am not fond of when it is by my choice.

PS it is Heather not Susie...

Heather

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Heather



Dr Yau (TLBC)
Jan 7, 2002

Doddie63

Heather I used your monicker (sp?).

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Angie911

My favorite american question was...Where do you get your milk? Do you milk the Buffalo?

marivan

I saw this topic earlier, and maybe it is a cold weather thing, but I moved to England and married my husband (Scottish) and I had quite the struggle to get him to take his shoes off in the house. I was brought up that it was polite to take them off and he just didn't get it. He's gotten better over the years, but he does a bizarre thing of bringing his shoes into the kitchen to put them back on and he invariably forgets something when he has them on, so there is a pile of dirt in the kitchen and dried dirt elsewhere. I suppose I should be grateful that it is dried.

Maybe we were taught to take off our shoes because of the snow?

Mary

as for the marshmallows and the green bean dish. I agree Ewwww.

Katie59

I have a new house and ceramic floor tiles, so my dog hair would not show and I insist people leave their shoes on.... I like that I have no dust or dog hair... cause I can mop and dry mop.... and so please leave them on and them you will not bother about the broken glass or other objects on that darn hard floor...