There is no hope for my people.
Jul. 19th, 2004 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynToday at my knitting group, I showed 'round the photographs from the first roll of film I took in Canada. We got to a photograph of one of the Mounties in dress uniform patrolling around the Parliament buildings.
One of the women in the group blinked at the sight and said, "What, no moose?"
"Um, that's Ottawa- you know, a city-"
"I would've thought he'd be riding a moose."
THERE ARE NO WORDS.
I mean, thank GOD one of the others glared at her and said, "Nobody rides moose!", but still.
Oh, and because I wasn't sure if I'd inflicted enough pain on myself... I happened to mention that this was just the dress uniform, and that most of the Mounties these days wear regular greyish khaki uniforms unless they've got some special duty. Sure enough, not one of the women there had any idea that the RCMP wore any uniform other than the reds.
I didn't dare tell them that most of 'em have, you know, cars these days.
One of the women in the group blinked at the sight and said, "What, no moose?"
"Um, that's Ottawa- you know, a city-"
"I would've thought he'd be riding a moose."
THERE ARE NO WORDS.
I mean, thank GOD one of the others glared at her and said, "Nobody rides moose!", but still.
Oh, and because I wasn't sure if I'd inflicted enough pain on myself... I happened to mention that this was just the dress uniform, and that most of the Mounties these days wear regular greyish khaki uniforms unless they've got some special duty. Sure enough, not one of the women there had any idea that the RCMP wore any uniform other than the reds.
I didn't dare tell them that most of 'em have, you know, cars these days.
