[PRCo] Re: US APPRECIATION

[John Bromley]

Be happy to be included in western wrath.  That puts you in the same
category as us easterners.  Remember how close Alberta and BC are to Montana
and Idaho, whose good citizens also number perhaps the largest percentage
(fortunately still in single digits) of weird Americans.

It has nothing to do with my attitude towards Americans, gained as a child
in the late 1940s-early 1950s when we visited all sorts of places from
Boston to Dallas (including Pittsburgh and you know how I feel about that
place from the hundreds of photos and slides), but my wife was and is an
American (dual citizenship) and the majority of her relatives, all in the
US, are some of the finest people I know.

Enough sucking up.   This thread should probably die before Derrick commits
murder.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ktjosephson at earthlink.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 11:42 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: US APPRECIATION


>                      PERSONAL OPINION WARNING! :-)
>
> Thanks, John. I know we all appreciate your support. You heard about the
> Nova Scotia highway patrolman who verbally abused a car full of people
> because he assumed they were Yanks? The car had license plates from either
a
> Mid Atlantic or New England state. Problem was, most of the people in the
> car were Canadian born and were visiting relatives in the province.
>
> May I add that I stopped participating on Dr. DeArmond's lists for a long
> period of time due to all the Yank bashing. Richard is American born and
is
> wonderful person, but many of his list members are from British Columbia
> (now known to some of us as "Canuckistan".)  Some of them bash the U.S.
> relentlessly. That really rubbed some of us Yanks the wrong way. There are
> about six of us who remain on the lists to keep up with the news, but we
> seldom post.
>
> I appreciated the private e-mails you sent me about this subject some
months
> ago. Some of the western Canadians have made wise cracks to the effect
that
> Toronto and Hamilton should be annexed by Michigan because the people
> residing there are "as uptight and materialistic as bloody Americans." :-)
>
>  The New Zealanders on the list also seem hostile to Americans.
>
> Their choice. I have my prejudices, too.
>
> I scrubbed all plans to visit B.C., and since the attitudes in Seattle,
> Washington towards low brows such as myself aren't much better, I decided
to
> cancel a family vacation we planned to take there as well.
>
> The friendliest traction fans I've met are mostly from Pittsburgh,
Toronto,
> Texas, D.C./Maryland and Philadelphia. Have met some nice people from
> Chicago and Seattle, but not as many as those from Toronto and the Mid
> Atlantic region.
>
> K.
>
>
>