I would like to know when I became the sort of person who took a detailed interest in the Weather Channel -
Aaaaaah, you have become a tad North American. Sig talks about being in a creative writing class with the brilliant Trinidadian-Canadian writer, Dione Brand, who asked in a baffled tone after reading a batch of the class's short stories: "Why is it all you Canadians write about is the weather!?" "Because," the class replied, "it becomes somewhat preoccupying when it can kill you." :)
Soon you will take the next step and become smug about the weather. When someone complains about the non-minus-23 temperatures they are experiencing elsewhere, you will look mildly sympathetic and then say, "Oh yes. minus 17. That's when we think about wearing a hat."
Or maybe you won't, because you are probably a better person, but, in Canada, anyway, we don't have a lot to shout about, so being smug about the extreme nature of our weather and our unlikely survival in it is our primary form of patriotism.
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Aaaaaah, you have become a tad North American. Sig talks about being in a creative writing class with the brilliant Trinidadian-Canadian writer, Dione Brand, who asked in a baffled tone after reading a batch of the class's short stories: "Why is it all you Canadians write about is the weather!?" "Because," the class replied, "it becomes somewhat preoccupying when it can kill you." :)
Soon you will take the next step and become smug about the weather. When someone complains about the non-minus-23 temperatures they are experiencing elsewhere, you will look mildly sympathetic and then say, "Oh yes. minus 17. That's when we think about wearing a hat."
Or maybe you won't, because you are probably a better person, but, in Canada, anyway, we don't have a lot to shout about, so being smug about the extreme nature of our weather and our unlikely survival in it is our primary form of patriotism.