For the second time in my life on this planet, the Canadian dollar is worth more than the US dollar!
Many people don’t care. But for me, it’s a small victory. You see, on many an occasion in the past 12 years, I’ve been the only Canadian in a room full of Americans. Americans are good people, don’t get me wrong. So good that I married one (love ya, Chickypoo 🙂 ). But their education system, media and government keep them uninformed/misinformed about the world beyond the United States’ borders (and sometimes about the world within their borders too). So when in the situation of being the lone Canuck in a group of Yanks, I usually have to field ribbing along the lines of this:
“$10. What’s that in Canadia[sic] dollars? Like $10000?. Hardy har har.”
Or I love when they parlay it to metric forms of measurement like this one:
“The speed limit’s 100 kilometres per hour, huh? What’s that in American? Must be 2 miles. Heh.”
These days, the currency that they refer to as Monopoly money is now officially worth more than the indistinguishable US greenback. But 100 kilometres is still 62 miles 🙂
PS: It would’ve been nice if the loonie were strong like it is now back while I was a university student in the US. Darn my luck, I guess.
PPS: Yes, in my experience many Americans often refer to Canada as “Canadia”, “Canadiana” or something else other than its name of the past 140 years. I don’t know why – see the US education system/media/government perhaps.
One Response to "you'd be looney to refer to it as 'monopoly money'"
Blame Canada.