Happy Colonialism Day in Canada, a former Commonwealth Colony
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Today on a mall walk, three strangers initiated a social interaction of various fashions.
First, a Elderly White Man and Elderly White Woman were walking and the man stopped to say “In case you’re wondering, that’s my wife.”
Seriously, really not and well; kinda duh, the normative and usual hardly needs to be explained.
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The second was an older woman of an ethnicity, who seemed confused that the Major Box store did not have it’s inside the mall door open to customer traffic while the outside doors were open.
When she asked what the holiday was; I wished her happy colonialism day.
She said she knew how to find the outside door, and the concept of having to go outside to get inside the store, inside the mall the store was in, seemed a difficult concept for her.
Indeed, on our second walk around the mall, where all the stores were unlit with shuttered doors closed, hours of operation posted. Some stores even had one person line ups.
The inside/outside woman was encountered again in front of the Produce store, when will it open, she asked of mall walkers who don’t work anywhere in the mall.
The store employees were inside setting up, the gate opened, but lights off.
They explained when they were opening.
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halfway through the mall walk, a woman approached me and asked me a question
that, as blonde and pale as I have been most of my life, my hair lost it’s gold and is now a mousey brown ashy tone, with some gold and silver hairs on my head and the stray white or red facial hairs; that I have never been asked
“Are you indigenous?”
I replied that I wasn’t but that I have relatives who are.
She asked if I knew about the First Nations festival at local surrey park; I hadn’t.
so she told me and I thanked her for letting me know
then I social faux pas confused Queen Victoria Day today as also being Aboriginal Day, which is actually June 21.
She introduced herself and we exchanged first names and shook hands; then went on our ways.
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