Can you be more unhelpful please?

[lindapendant]

Yesterday I left the house (incredible, right?) to run errands and at Canadian Tire (who by the way has signs up indicating the department names that are written in three foot tall letters in French but can't find it in their heart to write the English translation in a six point font - fuck you guys! Key word: Canadian Tire. But come to think of it

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[skylar_d3]

I hate to admit it but in Gatineau it's the same thing as far as the english/french thing. It bugs the hell out of me that living in Ottawa, we have to have both "official" languages but just over the bridge they don't!!! Oh don't get me started. As for stupid people...my good god they are everywhere...OH I hear you with this post loud and clear and agree!!!! Sometimes you just want to give people a shake and say..."HELLO, seriously dude????"

[lindapendant]

I don't know if I told you that my sister moved to Ottawa? Anyway, we visited and spent an afternoon in the Provincial Park in Gatineau, and I mean, that was crazy. A literal three minutes across a bridge and everything changes linguistically!

Living in Montreal which is so close to Ottawa, I had been there a few times but mostly as a child on school trips to the Parliament buildings and such, but going back as an adult was different. My first time there with Robert, we walked about exploring the city and I was gobsmacked by how much French was being spoken in stores by the staff, as I had not been expecting that. They had to have been from Gatineau and working in Ottawa.

When I told my sister how much French we had encountered that day, she was surprised and said she hadn't heard a word of it since she had moved there. Anyway, it's just mind bending how a line drawn in the sand abruptly alters the language in which one communicates in. It's sort of like stepping into a Twilight Zone episode.