Dave and I are in Montreal for the weekend and we are completely in love!! It is really an incredible city. I will be writing a much more in depth synopsis of our trip when I get home but I had to vent my frustrations before they made me say something that would get my ass kicked... So here goes.
Americans are assholes. Seriously. And we wonder why people hate us so much. Okay, please bear with me on this one, I do recognize that there are many of us who do not act like the people I am about to describe but unfortunately these people make the most noise so they are the most noticable. There are two sets of assholes I am referring to in particular but please don't allow this to fool you into thinking that they were the only two groups we have encountered.
Dave and I were walking all day and were cold and exhausted so we decided to stop and get a cup at a bustling cafe. There was still construction going on so the place was clearly brand new and it was packed so as you might expect the staff was very stressed and looked ragged. They were, however, super friendly and pretty efficient considering. There was only one customer ahead of us in line when we walked in and she appeared really confused and had no idea what she was ordering for the 7 people who were with her. But rather than step out of line and confer with her companions and allow the line to move along she decided to yell across the cafe to her family and fumble through several order changes while the ever expanding line waited. Finally after what seemed like hours she was finished and Dave and I moved on to order. Right in the middle of placing our order she barged back in front of us and started berating the two guys behind the counter for missing her caesar salad. The thing is, the guys had already told her that they were out of salad. She of course was insistent that they had not mentioned this. So we wait again for another ten minutes for her to complete her tirade and leave.
Then this evening after dinner Dave and I were walking back to our B & B and we walked past this group of college aged guys. They start shouting that "the Peel Pub sucks" because they only show hockey games on their televisions. I suppose in their drunken stupor these guys forgot that they were in friggin' Canada! What did they expect to see on the TV? Hockey = Canada, idiots. You could see what everyone staring at them was thinking, "Go home f-ing tourists." I know these looks all too well, because what I read on those faces was what I felt everyday living in New Orleans. So for the rest of our trip I will be on a mission to prove that not all Americans are stupid Americans.
3 comments:
No offense taken- as a general rule, Americans are assholes. They're assholes all the time; they just stand out more in foreign countries.
I'm going to have to agree on that one. When I lived in Australia my flatmates told me that when they heard an American girl was moving in they were really upset, not to mention the fact that I was from New York. This was apparently the worst part. They told me that they remember saying "I won't let her push me around and I don't care how rude she is". Hah... what a reputation.
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