Wednesday, July 20, 2005

The Loud Americans

Spicy dinner at a Thai restaurant. The food was great, as was the company. On the other side of the joint, a group of girls was apparently going wild. After you've been in Canada for an extended period of time, you start to notice how LOUD we are in the states. Canadians will go out and get drunk at the local pub, of course. But, according to Claire, they will certainly not do so at the local Thai restaurant. Also, they don't feel the same need that we do; we are out in public with our friends, so we absolutely must get drunk and make a lot of noise, or we won't be having fun, and we absolutely must be having fun at all times. There's something a bit pathological about it. A sort of obsessive fear of silence.

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