Today, as I was driving E and S to camp (yeah City of Toronto, for providing cheap and wonderful camp programs!), I saw an ad on the side of the bus. It was from Peopleforgood.ca.
These have been popping up on the sides of buildings, billboards and buses for the past few weeks as a part of an ad campaign to make Canadians nicer to one another. Um, hello? I don't know if all of you have been to Canada, but these people are some of the nicest on the planet already.
Example 1: I let this woman turn left in front of me, holding up about 7 cars, preventing 5 of them from making it through a green light. Not one of them honked. Can you imagine that in L.A. or D.C.?
Example 2: People regularly bring my trash cans on trash day up to my garage. They don't leave them at the end of the street.
Example 3: When I flew to the states with my kids one time, I accidentally left my van door open, in a huge rainstorm. One neighbor closed it. Another called me to see if everything was ok.
Example 4: People regularly offer you their extra parking time if they have it when they are leaving the lots.
And those are just a few of the examples. I could go on and on! People have helped me job search, welcomed our family into their homes and communities, and told us where to go buy everything from ice skates to tires (Canadian Tire, of course!). So, while I don't really see the need for people to be even nicer in Canada, I do love that they want to be.
So, I encourage you to visit peopleforgood.ca and bring a little happy Canada into your life today.
Love and hugs from the North, which is ridiculously and uncharacteristically HOT today!
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