Feb
24
– Why nice keeps your hands warm…
Now after writing the last post on Tuesday evening I headed to the airport to pick up my parents from the airport upon their return from spending the last week in Vancouver at the Olympics… so jealous!
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Giving me the highlights of their trip my mum mentioned how some of the best merchandise was hard to come by in the city. One of these desired items of course are the Canadian mittens with the white fleece maple leaves in the palms.
Impossible to find.
After stopping in gift shops throughout their visit in Vancouver, fighting lines and fatigue, they could not track a pair down. Their last day in the city, while waiting for one of the attractions in the Coke pavilion my mother spotted a woman wearing a coveted pair.
Just in passing my mum mentioned to the woman that she could make an absolute killing by selling her mittens. They were impossible to find and the hottest souvenir on them market at the games…
*Now here’s where I stopped my mum from the story and asked
“Did she sell them to you!?”
“No. She GAVE them to me”
“WHAT!?’
So this kind woman, a complete stranger, upon hearing that my mum had been all over the city looking for these mittens and knowing she was leaving the next day to head back to California, thought for a second, and handed over her pair and says “I want you to have these”.
My mum shakes her head and declines the generous gift, and the woman reiterates “No, I WANT you to have these”.
Now that my dear readers is what really sets Canadians apart. Not only are they nice and polite, but they are also gracious and generous too.
So thank you Catherine H. for proving yet again how amazing Canadians are :)
