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You know you live in the Maritimes when...

Timmy!

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You know your from the East Coast when..


1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to
pass a tractor on the highway.

2."Vacation" means going to Moncton for the weekend.

3. You measure distance in hours.

4.You know several people who have hit a deer.

5. You often switchfrom "Heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

6. You use a down filled comforter in the summer.

7. Your Grandparents drive 100 kmthrough 13 feet of snow during raging blizzard without flinching.

8. You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.

9.You install security lights on both your house and garage and goand leave both unlocked.

10. You think of the major food groups as: Meat, Fish and Tim Hortons.

11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife knows how to use them.

12. There are seven empty cars running in the parking lot of the Canadian Tirestore at any given time.

13. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

14. Driving is better in thewinter because the potholes are filled with snow.

15. Your lingerie consists of tube socks and flannel pajamas.

16. You knowall 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter and Construction.

17. It takes three hours to go to the store for one item, even when you're in a hurry because you have to stop and
talk to everybody in town.

And Finally: You know you live in the Maritimes when...

18. You actually understand these jokes and
forward them to all your friends from the Maritimes.









Cheers B'y,
TN2IC  ;D
 
When you punch up Starbucks, New Brunswick and you get two locations for the entire province.

And they're both in bookstores.    :)

Oh, the horror  ;D


 
Newfoundland has it's own time zone... what do you honestly think now?
 
Michael Baker said:
And our own language  ;D

"Yis my cocky and don't you forgit dat or I'll scrob de eyes outta ya!"
Me wife's a newf and taught me ow to talk like dat. In fact I think those were her first words to me.... ;D
 
I had my ex keep calling me b'y...so I started to call her girl... gee.. I don't think things really worked out. Wonder why...
 
TN2IC said:
I had my ex keep calling me b'y...so I started to call her girl... gee.. I don't think things really worked out. Wonder why...

in Newf they called a girl "maid." The RSM in Gagetown when I was there, a newf, married a mainlander...I remember him telling me that when she went to the rock to meet the in laws the father was always calling her maid...she was insulted and told her husband to tell his Dad to stop referring to her as "the maid." ha ha.....you gotta get on the lingo!!
 
Took me a while to remember that when my Mother-in-law asked me if I wanted some bakedapple pie she did not mean a pie made from apples but one made from the most sour berries I've ever tasted.  I got caught more times having to wince down a slice of bakedapple pie because I forgot. 

The other thing having to get your head around is the Inbound and Outbound road signs.
 
Lang75 said:
Gees, I am starting to get home sick.
Starting?I left 7 years ago and still get teary eyed:
* watching NTV news...when they go past holyrood.
*Let me fish off cape st marys is played.
*Newfoundland national anthem is played.


I basically live my life for 3 weeks a year.Sad to say but it's true.I get the automatic sigh of relief everytime I get off that boat onto my homeland.I feel great pride with having my accent,and our history.

SOme days (like today actually)I ask myself if doing this for a living is really worth it.for 50,000 a year I have given up all hope of ever retiring when my parents are alive.I can't grab the begals and head in hunting for the weekend here,go out on the pond mud trouting (without a fisherpersons card and maybe a ice safety course knowing the mainland).I cant go cut a cord of wood without a permit,and overall by the time of retirement I will have spent over half my life on the mainland.My child is a mainlander,his mother a immigrant.Packing him a sandwich friday morning and telling him to be home for supper as he trots in the woods with his dog don't happen up here,even if its perfectly safe to do back home.Giving him a 12 guage as a 12th birthday persent aint gonna happen.

I have seen 4 uncles 2 aunts 2 grandparents die since I left for the army,none of which I could attend as the were not "direct family".And honestly if Bull Arm takes off as it's suppose to I plan on releasing to get back around the bay.30,000 in Newfoundland will make a better standard of living then 50 here.

But as many in the regular force guarenteed pay,guarenteed job keeps us here.

Newfoundland will always be home in my heart.Even when times get shitty I go to my happy spot.The large mountain overlooking our harbour and islands in our bay.
 
Anyone remember the sigh leading away from the airport in St Johns?

To TCH?


err.... anyone meet the welcome wagon in Carbonear ;)?
 
Hi

You know your from the East Coast when...

3. You measure distance in hours.

In The RCR Band, when asked by a new member how far it was to Moncton, the answer would be " a six pack".  >:D

Drummy
 
You know you're from the East Coast when  "izza" means: "Is that right?"
 
Miss Jacqueline said:
You know you're from the East Coast when  "izza" means: "Is that right?"

Correct translation would be "is it".

Used properly in context.

Person 1:"That tank is the one that always throws track"
Person 2: izza?I thought it was 174?

Mainlanders ::)
lol
 
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