So I just came back from the airport after sending Erin off on her way home.
Like I said in a previous post, she decided to quit CMFD as well, but she did so after taking a full-time reporting gig at the Cape Breton Post. (She was working with CMFD on behalf of Journalists for Human Rights.) ...
Shame.
No longer will I be able to make fun of her accent or sing Stan Rogers to make her homesick.
I think we actually helped to quell each other's homesickness by talking in Canadian accents about mythical Canadian characters: she adopting a full-blown Cape Breton one, and me mimicking the guys in FUBAR or Dave Little (a family friend who farms in Saskatchewan).
"Donnie, drop your net, grab the charrgh-ter, we're going to the barrrgh"
"Hey Dougie, can you get me a double-double and a coupl'a crullers?"
"How's goin?"; "How's she going?"
"Lord thunderin' b'y, would you look at that."
It would probably be annoying to do it in Canada, but over here, it was pretty entertaining meal-time banter.
...
At least now I'll get to resume talking to myself.
Hambe kahle, Erin.
PS ...
Erin: "That year I took Criminal Law and the Charrrgh-ter."
BK: "the what?"
Erin: "Shut up."
Erin: "I've got to make payments on my carrrrgh."
BK: "You've got to make payments on what?"
Erin: "Shut up."
That's how it usually went down.
She also frequently referred to my "fancy Toronto" things or "fancy Big City" whatevers. I've never thought of the North York-Scarborough border as fancy, but I've never been to North Sydney.
3 comments:
The Peanut Plaza is fancy!
Damn, you're right.
honey bunny, you can skype me anytime if you want to hear this rocking accent. glad to be the one that taught you by' or bye.
hope you are okay after being mugged, you know how upset (cranky) i was when i thought i might have been pickpocketed. hoping you are taking care of yourself.
EP
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