Giant everything: drinks which start as size large/tall, giant fruit, giant cookies, giant shampoo bottles
After coffee gum: What the?
The number of StarBucks: its insane. They are everywhere. The corner of Robson St has 2 opposite one another! I’m quickly starting to hate Starbucks just because they are EVERYWHERE.
The cute beeping noise the pedestrian crossings here make.
Dog friendly town!: You will see dogs in stores, in cafes and signs on store windows saying ” Dog Friendly Store”. Or more strangely signs that say ” No Dogs Allowed”. Isn’t that a given??
One bookstore in Granville Island had a sign reading ” Dogs Friendly Store, Come in and have a biscuit. Biscuits at front counter.”
Warning Signs: There are signs which warn about COYOTES!!!!! Coyotes?????!!!
Seat warmers in cars: Both Mindy’s and Sean’s Dad’s cars have seat warmers!! They are the best invention ever. I didn’t want to leave either cars for my toosh was so cosy and warm. Australia gotta get some of them.
This shall continue with more sillyness discovered…
5 responses so far ↓
1 tracey // Apr 19, 2005 at 10:04 am
weee! that’s what i like to see… more cana-manda posts
2 Mindy // Apr 19, 2005 at 10:57 am
Seat warmers really are one of mankinds greatest inventions.
3 Tina // Apr 20, 2005 at 1:18 am
I noticed the drenching of Starbucks too ! And nearly every third person here has a dog with em ….
4 u2kaus // May 12, 2005 at 4:05 pm
Volvos from the mid 1990’s onwards have build in seat warmers
for the front passenger, even in Australia. Very nice.
5 Jordan // Mar 28, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Hey Amanda!
Just came across your blog while I was searching for particularly Canadian things (how un-Canadian of me), and this list is great.
The Starbucks thing seems to be very Vancouver… I heard recently that one of the adjacent stores on Robson was closing.
Otherwise… I suppose I take those things for granted having grown up here in Vancity… I couldn’t survive without seat-warmers though.
-Jordan (charkshark on flickr)
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