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ADVICE IF YOU HAVE JUST MOVED TO NS
1. Save all Tim Hortons trays. You will be instructed later on how to use them.
2. If you do run your car into a ditch, don't panic. Four men in the cab of a four-wheel-drive with a 12-pack of beer and a tow chain will be along shortly. Don't try to help them. Just stay out of their way. This is what they live for.
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7. A Mercedes-Benz is not a status symbol, a Tractor, a truck, a skidoo or a 4 wheeler is.
8. If someone says they're "fixin" to do something, that doesn't mean anything's broken.
9. If you don't understand French, don't worry. Neither do the French people.
10. If you see a slower moving vehicle on a two-lane road pull onto the shoulder that is called "courtesy", if you don't understand this, reconsider moving to a ruder province.
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11. Moose & deer season must be taken into consideration for weddings, funerals, and divorces. Don't plan ANYTHING on these days
12. Donairs. That's it. That's all.
13. DO NOT honk your horn at us to be obnoxious, we will sit there until we die.
14. Prepare to use your heater, air conditioner, bug spray, sunscreen and blanket all within an hour.
15. "No, yeah" means yes and "yeah, no" means no.
16. The index finger is used to wave from the steering wheel to everyone you pass on the road.
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17. Poker runs, in the summer on 4 wheelers and boats, in the winter on snowmobiles.
18. There is a Lions club 50/50 at any event that draws a crowd.
19. Everyone's father probably met their mudder at the legion.
20. “Magine” is a empathetic answer to anything you just said.
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@Jax_Wild_4_Life 😂
Laughing at your NS girl picture!
I feel like a Nova Scotia girl! My dad and the rest of his fam all from Cape Sable, and then Yarmouth.
My grandmother and aunties had MOUTHS on them! OMG!
After meeting my aunts, my then-husband said to me, "Now I understand why you are the way you are." 😆 🇨🇦
@okika_hilo this is awesome! And I don't know why I'm just seeing this now.
Ya know, for a NS girl, I have never been to Cape Sable nor Sable Island, though I've always wanted to go! I remember in middle school, one of my teachers talking about it a lot!
And yeah, most Nova Scotia girls don't mince words lol 😆 but we sure know how to have a time at a good kitchen party!!
@Jax_Wild_4_Life OMG! My aunties had such potty mouths. And the story of my grandmother having an argument with my grandfather is legendary. He came home and she was dressed to go out. "Where the hell do you think YOU'RE going?" (The lodge meeting.) "Over my dead body!"
She picks up a heavy piece to crockery and shakes it at him, saying, "That could be arranged!"
Off she went, flinging the crockery in the flower bed. NO ONE dared to touch it for months!
@okika_hilo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That sounds about right! We curse like sailors, but most have hearts of gold.
And my grandmother (father's mother) was basically the same way. My grandfather would say something to her JUST to get her all riled up: "come here, ya old battle axe!" after winking at one of us kids, and without fail, every time, my grandmother would scream something at him, usually along the lines of "you shut the fuck up, you old bastard!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Jax_Wild_4_Life 😂
My parents had a friend named Berniece. She always spilled stuff on herself.
If she was wearing dark clothes, she would spill something creamy on herself. If she was wearing light-colored clothing, she would spill something dark, like pasta sauce.
(This was before I was born.)
I guess they had a private joke about how she spilled stuff.
When I was a kid, if my mom spilled something, my Nova Scotia dad would call her 'Berniece'— and that's when the fight would start!
@okika_hilo omg too funny! I'm a total Bernice too lmao
3. Remember: We say please and thank you a lot. Men also nod their heads at everyone they walk by and women smile. We are just nice like that.
4. Get used to the phrase "It's not the heat, it's the humidity". And the collateral phrase "You call this hot? Wait'll August."
5. Don't tell us how they do it in Toronto. Nobody cares.
6. If you think it's too hot in the Summer, don't worry it'll only last for 2 months.
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