I deal with non-Canadians on a regular daily basis, so I have a few stories like this. My two favorites are...
A few years ago, on Easter long weekend, I was chatting online with some American game playing buddies. It was getting late, so I said goodnight to everyone, and wished them a "Happy Easter" (I know, an odd thing to wish). One of them piped up and said "Wait a minute, is Easter the same day in Canada too?!?" I calmly replied... "No, Jesus died on a different day up here".
And, at the height of the SARS epidemic in Toronto, all of my American studios thought we were dropping like flies out here! They honestly thought it was some Outbreak type scenario, where we were all either dying in the streets, or searching for Patient Zero so we could run tests on him to create a vaccine. They all refused to come to Toronto for the better part of a year, except for one person. I went to pick him up from the airport, and he came off the plane with a surgical mask and gloves on!
And I won't even describe the look of horror on their faces when, on a trip to Chicago of all places, we went to a Pizza Parlour for lunch, and I convinced them all that I had no idea what Pizza was! When it arrived I started eating it upside down and backwards - and they were astounded!
