Canadian here. I lived in the UK for a few years for university and have two experiences that stick out significantly in my mind.
The first is more of a general one... i smoke and when I was in England I used to roll my cigarettes instead of buying the already rolled cigarettes. Now, I spent a lot of time in London for work and school stuff and I used to get approached for cigarettes a lot. However, it is the American/Canadian tourists who would always approach me and I always got the same line: “I don’t usually smoke but I’m on vacation so what the heck”. I obliged when I was able to and some even offered to pay me for it. The funniest part of these interactions was when they saw that I had to roll it. Most of them thought I was doing something illegal.
(Side note to this story: I used to bring back rolling tobacco to Canada when I was home for the holidays and used to always get strange looks because this was before weed was legal. I even almost got kicked out of a bar because the management and security thought I had d***s. The look of surprise on their faces always made me chuckle)
Secondly was when I was back at school I went to the currency exchange at M&S and the lady working the counter (a Brit) asked me what part of Australia I was from. I was really confused because I have been told by family and friends I developed a little accent but not anything that someone would think was British; it was mostly just the way I said certain words. I guess I must’ve said something and it coupled with my Canadian accent must’ve thrown her off.
Thanks for reading and I love the UK! I can’t wait to go back again I had the best years of my life there.
The first is more of a general one... i smoke and when I was in England I used to roll my cigarettes instead of buying the already rolled cigarettes. Now, I spent a lot of time in London for work and school stuff and I used to get approached for cigarettes a lot. However, it is the American/Canadian tourists who would always approach me and I always got the same line: “I don’t usually smoke but I’m on vacation so what the heck”. I obliged when I was able to and some even offered to pay me for it. The funniest part of these interactions was when they saw that I had to roll it. Most of them thought I was doing something illegal.
(Side note to this story: I used to bring back rolling tobacco to Canada when I was home for the holidays and used to always get strange looks because this was before weed was legal. I even almost got kicked out of a bar because the management and security thought I had d***s. The look of surprise on their faces always made me chuckle)
Secondly was when I was back at school I went to the currency exchange at M&S and the lady working the counter (a Brit) asked me what part of Australia I was from. I was really confused because I have been told by family and friends I developed a little accent but not anything that someone would think was British; it was mostly just the way I said certain words. I guess I must’ve said something and it coupled with my Canadian accent must’ve thrown her off.
Thanks for reading and I love the UK! I can’t wait to go back again I had the best years of my life there.