You asked for it!

This was told to me:

A young lady, not a Half-Canadian, went out on Tuesday to arrange an eye exam. She needed new glasses. As she walked down the street, there was a big chain glasses place, with a sign that said Free Eye Exams. Excellent! As eye exams are no longer covered by Health Care in Ontario, this was quite a deal! An excellent marketing strategy for the entrepreneur running the store.

The young lady went into the store, and, as luck would have it, was ushered right into optometrists room for her eye exam. It was all good ... until she tried to leave. The three people running the store celebrated a culture that was different than the young lady. In their culture, you have to pay sixty bucks for an eye exam. The young lady pointed at the sign that said Free Eye Exams. Sadly, Free Eye Exams does not mean Free Eye Exams in Whatever-bonic-Canadian dialect.

Embarassed, and now facing three angry people, the young lady felt like how a racist would feel when facing a gang of victims. She did not bring her money, as she was just planing to set up an eye exam. The customer service rep on duty, the brother of the man doing the eye exams, suggested that she leave her glasses (her only pair, which she needs for driving) behind, until the sixty dollars be found.

Now, Vimy-Ridge-Canadians have not celebrated this form of debt collection since Charles Dickens' time. But, it is celebrated in the many diverse cultures that make up Canada's Illegal Immigrant Mosaic. This incident occured in a crowded store. Many people (kinda like the six who did nothing while a man beat a woman on the subway, which I related a few posts back) watched and did nothing. Certainly, diversity makes us stronger in a city where Free Eye Exams does not mean Free Eye Exams.

The young lady simply walked out of the store. And for those of you who are unlikely to be welcomed into Whatever-bonic-Canadian culture this way, well, it does not much matter, now does it. Those of you who are infirm, or outnumbered, when this occurs, well, do let me know how it turns out. This is the happy multi-culturalism Pierre Elliot Trudeau promised us. It's here! You asked for it!

I, Fenris Badwulf, wrote this

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