Clearly Canadian? Certainement décevant!

My partner and I leave for Nova Scotia this Friday, and are driving the whole way. We had planned on staying in a B&B in Dartmouth, just across the harbor from Halifax, but abandoned plans quickly after the female proprieter asked if I would be staying alone for the week.

"No," I replied, "my partner will be along with me."

Silence on the line.

"Is that a problem?" I asked, bracing for the response.

Another short silence.
"Well...er... no, not really. I mean... uh... well, we do have two children, you know. But that should be okay because we live downstairs and the guest rooms are upstairs. So no, no problems."

"Fine, then." I replied, "I'll make a deal with you: My partner and I won't have sex with or in front of your kids if you promise the same. In addition, we'll restrict our breakfast chit-chat strictly to the weather rather than our favorite sexual positions and how much we can't wait to get our hands on the kids."

Okay, so I wasn't that reciprocally disrespectful, but I did say that we would not be staying with them and hung up. I suppose I didn't expect all Canadians to be liberal and open-minded.

We ended up using Priceline.com and found a three-star hotel in the heart of Halifax for $77/night - a room that normally goes for $150! And to think that the B&B chumps could have had their hands on nearly $700 US - and maybe learned some tolerance. Acceptance would be asking for too much, eh?