attention Canadians!! What is the funniest thing that Americans have asked you about Canada?

Question

The funniest thing that an American has said to me was in a game room while I was playing. He asked me where I was from I said canada. He asked me how cold it was there and I thought about it and let him have it, so I said its cold enough to pack more ice around teh outside of the igloo and he said how do you use a computer in an igloo and I said oh thats easy...the computer is made of ICE...he was truely amazed.....(shaking my head)....lmaoooo. Tell me your story.

Answer 1

I was asking for direction in Buffalo and once he found out that I am from Canada, he asked me how the Tim Horton's coffee tastes like. he got my promise to bring him Tim's coffee next time I drove to Buffalo! or he wont give me the direction :)

Answer 2

Okay, between June of 1999 and August of 2000 I was going to school in New Hampshire. I was only on campus during the summer months and then between September 99 and May 2000 I was on my internship in Orlando, FL. I was working in a reservations call center with around 30 people and about 75% of them were from southern states if not the state of Florida itself. When Christmas rolled around, I booked 10 days off and came north to Canada to celebrate Christmas and my birthday. The week before I left several of my co workers started asking me about the igloo I lived in and the dogsleds we drove to get around. The hilarious part is, either all of these people were amazing actors (NOTE: NONE OF THEM WERE!) or they were actually serious. So, to make them eat their words, I took two pictures when I was home specifically to hang by my desk. I live in the GTA and the first picture was of my mom and dad standing in the front lawn of our house with a whole bunch of other houses in the background. My dad was wearing a t-shirt and shorts while my mother was dressed up in a full snowsuit because she had just gotten home from work (she was a crossing guard). There was no snow in that picture because it was one of the milder December's and we had a green Christmas that year. The second picture was 1 1/2 hours drive north at my grandparent's house (in the Snow Belt) with snowbanks taller than my tallest cousin is. My co workers still thought that the picture of my parents was taken in a studio with an impressive backdrop.

Oh yeah, I used to work in Algonquin Park and we would actually keep a list all summer long from everyone who we worked with. It was a list called "Stupid Camper Comments" and we always put it on the back pages of the yearbooks we made up for the summer. It wasn't always Americans asking the questions but a large portion of it was.

Answer 3

My dad is a truck driver and crosses the border between Canada and the US at least 3 days of the week. Once, when he first started trucking, he was all the way down in Louisiana but in a rural area not a big city like New Orleans. He was in a truck stop and at another table there was another Canadian and the waitress was absolutely fascinated that he was from Canada. She asked him, "What do you do when you get the trucks to the US/Canada border? I mean, you don't have roads up there so how do you get the stuff past the border?" Well, this guy decided to play around with this waitress in his response. He said to her "well, we back the trucks up to the border where teams of dogsleds are waiting for the cargo to be unloaded and then they take off for their final destination." The waitresses answer was, "Wow, really." SHE BELIEVED IT!

Meanwhile, my Dad and his co worker were sitting at the next table trying to keep themselves from cracking up in laughter.

Answer 4

i used to work at the Ottawa Int'l airport so i heard many many stupid questions. 90% from Americans.
The best was the time a couple (probably in their late 30's), looked at me and were whispering to each other. The woman then approached and asked - very slowly - "do you speak American?".

well, i'm usually sarcastic in most situations, so you can't imagine how many thoughts and responses were going thru my mind at this point. I just looked at her with a very concentrated look on my face and responded equally slowly. "Yes i do".

Or, "if i pay in dollars (we have dollars too) do i get real money back?"
Oh, if only i had some Canadian Tire money...

And then there was the time this american couple and their child came in, and i noticed she was wearing a notably heavy coat. She seemed approachable and i asked what was up with the parka? It was summertime.
She laughed and said embarassed, "i thought it was going to be colder up here!" At least she admitted it was foolish.

My brother was asked many years ago about our living conditions, such as if we only drive snowmobiles, if we use the same kind of utensils - forks, spoons...
and then the topper, "do y'all have electriciy up there?"
To be fair, no, not everyone has electricity. But all we have to do is pay the bill in our funny money and they'll turn it back on.

Answer 5

I work at a call center and an American once asked me if you could get to Canada driving from the US. I was kinda like "yeah why not we're attached". He didn't understand the concept. I asked a similar question a while ago and got some great answers. Take a look.

Answer 6

I heard from a friend who worked at a gas station not far from the border that an american had driven across the border (maybe from a few states away) into Canada and stops at the gas station to ask where all the bleeping snow is!?!

It was JULY !!!

uh did you think the temperature was gonna plummet after you drove over the little line called the border???

Answer 7

I lived in Windsor Ontario, (across the river from Detroit, Michigan), for six years and was asked a of of funny questions.
The newspaper used to publish a list of such questions gathered from the Canadian custom employees. What a riot! One lady stated that she would like to show Canada to her grandson who was with her. She had an hour. What would be the quickest way.
When Della Resse had her own talk show out of Detroit, I heard her say that she had cossed the border for the first time and was amazed that Canada was a city just like any cities in the states!

Answer 8

The funniest question I have ever been asked was once when I was working in a small gas station near the border a lady from the states thought I was native cause I am from India and supposedly they look similar, Anyway she asked "do you speak American". And for laughs I said "No" Then she started asking me about measurement in the States and I answered them correctly. SO she was confused I kept doing things like that until she was so pissed off she turned around and stomped off with a red face vowing never to come back it was hilarious I was laughing until my boss told me to stop and get back to work. Good thing to for right as I turned to get more batteries here husband came in and was complaining to my boss. Then after the man left my boss turned around and asked what happened I told him He glared at them then started laughing his head off but told me not to do it again. I still find it funny so does my boss.

Answer 9

In my late teens I worked at a conservation park. It was a stiffling hot day, like last week, I'm in the guard shack and I see this car pull up with skiis on it. So out I trot and the guy says to me where's the snow?

The devil made me do it , I pointed to the road and told him to keep driving north til he hit Hudson's Bay and take the ferry to Greeland and he'd find snow.

Nearly got fired for that one , but I still laugh when I think about it.

How can a country be that close geographically and know absolutely nothing about another country that sits on top of it and is its largest trading partner?

Answer 10

There's a poster in my shop (in Central Ontario) advertising the book "Temagami", which is an old growth forested area a couple of hours north of here. An American couple approached me and asked in a conspiratory whisper if I'd please take the poster down.

They explained they had a summer residence there, and when they would tell their American friends about it, no one knew where it was. They considered it their little secret, and didn't want anyone else to know about the place.

I couldn't resist... sorry... I told them quite honestly, "Oh, Temagami - all the men from here go there to hunt in the fall." Like nobody here had ever heard of the place either...

Answer 11

I used to do business with a gentleman in New York. One time he says to me 'I been meaning to ask you, do you live like those guys on 'Northern Exposure'? My reply was 'yes, but with less snowmobiles, and we don't see the moose every day.
At least he didn't ask about igloos. We became friends after that, right up until 9/11.

Ta vun ga vun ga. Pisupa gasa punga
I still miss you, 'Bro'.