Ah, oui, les Canadiens...

[scooterbird]

Right, Montréal. It still remains one of my favorite cities ever, ever, ever.* I commented to efbq at least twice how at home I felt there, even with my French being so shaky. (This didn't stop me, as befits my almost irrational dislike of being catered to as a touriste; I want to be as much of a "townie" as possible when I visit somewhere, and was

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[thirdbase]

"Please book my youngest. That way, she can hitchhike back to the house, and drive the car back up here to pick us up. While you're doing that, would you please phone your boss so I can tell her/him what a fucktard they have in their employ? It's a good thing you don't work in Customer Service. Could you even imagine what your personnel folder would look like?"

My heart started pounding just reading this!

[scooterbird]

When not doing this, btw, she would look down to whatever she was doing on her desk and studiously ignore us. The whole interchange started with her checking on our flight, confirming that we'd missed it...and then simply going back to whatever else she was doing and ignoring us completely. We had to interrupt her again (causing her to look up with a look on her face like, "Oh, you're still here?") to get her to look up tomorrow's flight and give us the nonsense about the one seat.

I should say this was the only fucktard we encountered in the entire city. Apparently, everyone just transferred their fucktardedness to this one, hateful woman.

[treyhawk]

Montréal is a great city indeed. I need to visit there more often, even though their baseball team has gone south (pardon the pun).

I have not had problems with Air Canada on my visits to Montreal and Toronto. I definitely had problems with US Airways, both domestic and to Canada, and I try now to avoid them wherever possible.

I have also given up on connecting flights, after a really bad thunderstorm at Cincinnati (well, Kentucky, but I'm quibbling there). I'm now willing to shovel out the extra C-note to get a direct flight to Canada. Much easier on my nerves.

[debboamerik]

And... still looking for the connection with the Russian president?

[scooterbird]

Alors, ce président ça, ce n'est pas la poutine correct.

[thecanuckguy]

*blinkblink* and here I thought Air Canada was the waste of airspace (as all Canadians know).

While it is good that you fit in there, it did seem to come through your knowledge of French. While I know some French, it isn't as good as yours, and I'm wondering if I'd be given the eye-rolling-sigh-"tourist" treatment.

[scooterbird]

Mine isn't very good, but it's marginally passable. Still, beforehand, I taught the youngest, who has no knowledge of French, the phrase, "Pardonnez-moi, je suis americaine." The one thing I wanted to get across was that we were Americans who were attempting to speak their language...not Canadian anglais who had lived there the entire time and didn't bother to learn it. That may have come in handy once or twice.