- You have a great suit for work on, but you have white sneakers or any shoe from MEC on your feet.
- Your kid is four and you're still breastfeeding it.
- You complain about the traffic (which is non-existent)
- You aspire to become a Public Servant
- You won't spank you kid; in public or otherwise
- You give up smoking
- Most of your wardrobe comes from MEC and/or is made of hemp
- You spend over 20k on childcare every year
- Over 75% of the people on your party list are Public Servants and Lawyers
- You have a cottage and it is 12 minutes from your home
- You shop "organic"
- You ride your bike to and from work (see point 1)
- You have a nanny and its not considered a luxury but in fact a way of saving money (see point 8)
- You are more afraid of the police than the crack-heads
- You paid over 400k for a townhome in the 'burbs
- You restrict your highlights to blonde, otherwise its too racy
- You wait until you're in your 40's to start having children
- You dress badly (upscale to you is the Bay or Cleo)
- You have named your child Sienna or Bryce or anything ending in an "ie" rather than a "Y"
- You have forgotten the words to " O Canada" in French, but know them backwards and forwards in English
- You know the truth about Max Keeping
- You are surprised to find out someone is straight.
- Your boys swim instead of play hockey (I think in Quebec you can actually be stoned for this...)
- You install floating floor (over hardwood!!!)
A series of occasionally not well thought out rants and raves. Wait, are rants negative and raves positive? See what I mean?
Friday, November 18, 2005
You know you have become a true Ottawaian when...
Okay, I have partially ripped this off of my sister's list and a list that was tabulated in Ottawa magazine, but most of these are my own. Feel free to add yours...
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3 comments:
Sometimes people have no choice but to use floating floor, and judgy judgersteins shouldn't judge.
You always have a choice, Anon. This isnt Russia you know.
Yes, because in Russia, they would know when to use possessive apostrophes... Maybe certain people would KNOW about Russian possessive apostrophe use, if certain people had read Anna Karenina for their book club after THEY SUGGESTED IT.
Anonymously yours,
Anonymous
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