‘Just wanted to apologize’: Americans pick up the tab for everyone at Canadian restaurant
‘Just wanted to apologize’: Americans pick up the tab for everyone at Canadian restaurant
Many people enjoyed a free breakfast on Saturday at Windsor, Ont.‘s restaurant, Toast, as an unknown American couple paid for everyone’s bill. The gesture acted as an apology for the rift between Canada and the U.S.
Windsorite Susan Taylor was at Toast, ready to pay for her breakfast when she was told the bill had been covered.
“The waitress made an announcement in the restaurant that this lovely couple in the corner is paying for everyone who is in the restaurant at the time for breakfast,” Taylor told AM800’s Mornings with Mike and Meg.
“She (the donor) said that she was American, and she just wanted to apologize,” said Taylor.
“She said she knows that their president has caused a rift in what was happening between our countries, and she wanted us to know that not all Americans are bad people.”
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Of all countries the US should apologize to, I don't think Canada makes to the top 50, but I'm not gonna lead a gift horse to water
I’m not gonna lead a gift horse to water
What a joyously adorable mix of proverbs. This made me smile.
I beleive that's called a Malapropism A favorite malapropism of mine is "We'll burn that bridge when we get to it."
It's close, and malapropisms are great too, but they rely on a similar-sounding incorrect word being used in place of the correct word, usually resulting in hilarity. Your example is also hilarious, but I don't think it counts as a malapropism, not to get all linguistically technical (okay, I will lol). Rick Perry saying states are "lavatories of innovation and democracy" instead of "laboratories" is a perfect and awesome example.
The genius of @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml's comment was that they combined two relevant proverbs into a single equally relevant but hilarious one: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink" + "Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth" = brilliance
Yea, I think @NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml was looking for malaphor
Note: I did not know this, but I wanted to see if there was a correct word for it so I dug.
The US needs to apologize to the whole world at this point. It's an absolute embarrassment
Why not? While our government is treating other countries and their people worse, it’s not as uncalled for. While most of the chaos is self-instigated for very little reason, there’s just no logic to attacking Canada and so many reasons not to.
It’s like saying we have a nice neighbor who we’ve always got along with and who always helps out, but it’s not worth apologizing for spitting in their face for no reason, because we started a fire at that house down the street with the family whose customs we don’t understand
I didn't mean an apology isn't owed, I meant there's a very long line of people waiting.
but they aren't first world nations that talk about it on Lemmy so they aren't as important.
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