God Bless America?

It's funny how one piece of punctuation can absolutely and completely change the meaning of that...

You may have heard the story of how a man got pepper sprayed at the Canada/U.S. border for requesting that the border crossing guard say 'please' when asking him to turn off his car. If not, you can read the story here:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/please+border+nets+Canadian+pepper+spray/1353152/story.html

It may have been a little much for this man to demand a polite request from the guard, but it's still funny how the initial reaction to the refusal of participation was 'i'm going to blast this mo' fo' in the eyes with my pepper spray.' Maybe due to the lack of interesting things that happen at border crossings, he needed to spice up his day. Maybe, add a bit of pepper for flavour?

nice.

I understand the difference between Canadians and Americans isn't something that can be formulated or even generalized. I know a lot of Americans who are kind and polite people. However, in this case, it's almost an exact replication of what is sometimes seen as the difference between the two nations' people. It's like it's a deleted scene from the movie Canadian Bacon (which, if you haven't yet seen, please do.)

After all of this, the man's eyes will go back to normal, and his life will go on. Maybe now he'll realize that demanding respect is not going to yield the best results in every scenario...