Canadian sticker shock
This is our first trip to Canada to amount to anything. We arrived in Calgary Tuesday afternoon. First shock was the gas pump. 82l of diesel for $152.00. I understand the exchange rate and all but I s...
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campigloo wrote:
Man, some people are really uptight. I was shooting for a fun little topic and some people have to turn it into a hate fest. I have nothing against Canada, Canadians or your politics. We’re having an amazing trip and never meant to offend anyone.
Here’s to hoping the moderator will close this one.
I wouldn’t say we as Canadians are uptight on this issue you brought forward, we are just trying figure out how you paid so much for fuel in the cheapest fuel price province in Canada. :h
I think what you saw in this tread was a bunch of Canadians defending the prices of items by trying to give some background on howcome things are so expensive up here, compared to the USA.
Everything else just snowballed from there. :E
In saying that, there will most likely be a bunch of Canucks that get on here and totally disagree with what I just wrote, but that’s THIER opinion... :B
I have found out in these type of forums you can hit people’s tender nerve with the wrong placement of a word or a sentence, it’s very easy to do because everybody in the world see things in a different light.
Enjoy your trip :C
Soup.
