This was an internet list making the rounds some years ago and attributed to Jeff Foxworthy. I haven’t been able to get confirmation or denial that this is true, although I did find denial about similar lists attributed to Foxworthy.
- If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don’t work there, you live in Canada.
- If you’ve worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in Canada.
- If you’ve had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in Canada.
- If ‘Vacation’ means going anywhere south of Detroit for the weekend, you live in Canada.
- If you measure distance in hours, you live in Canada.
- If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in Canada.
- If you have switched from ‘heat’ to ‘A/C’ in the same day and back again, you live in Canada
- If you can drive 90 kms/hr through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Canada.
- If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you live in Canada.
- If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you live in Canada.
- If you design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you live in Canada.
- If the speed limit on the highway is 80km — you’re going 90 and everybody is passing you, you live in Canada.
- If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you live in Canada.
- If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction, you live in Canada.
- If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in Canada.
- If you find 2 degrees ‘a little chilly’, you live in Canada.
If you actually understand these jokes, and forward them to all your friends & others, you definitely live (or have lived) in Canada.