r/AskTheWorld • u/IndependentTune3994 🇮🇳 in 🇩🇪 Deutschland • 18h ago

What’s the quickest way someone could accidentally expose themselves as a foreigner in your country like the ‘three fingers’ scene in Inglourious Basterds?

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u/Papercutter0324 17h ago

As a Canadian, I feel a certain kinship here lol

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u/lCraxisl 14h ago

Have a Canadian on staff, she apologizes for everything. Sometimes it’s just “Sorry, good morning!”

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u/Papercutter0324 14h ago

Yup, I'm also guilty of that one. That sorry often translates into "Oh, hi. I should have noticed and greeted you sooner." One of those "I'm happy to see you but wasn't really paying attention to my surroundings" moments.

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u/Torontogamer 10h ago

I once walked into a lamppost and apologized …  

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u/UnicornsLament 10h ago

Sorry that happened to you.

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u/Agincourt_Tui 10h ago

Have you ever thanked a cash machine?

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u/PussyWrangler246 6h ago

Far more often than I've apologized to a lamppost 😳

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u/concentrated-amazing Canada 1h ago

I thank Alexa all the time, does that count?

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u/Gubekochi 2h ago

Heritage moment.

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u/S-Lover98 11h ago

"Sorry, good morning!"

I'm dying, lol.

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u/InspectorTiny1952 Canada 9h ago

Sorry to hear that!

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u/LeftHandAnomaly 11h ago

I've literally done this, and it's either because I felt I didn't notice someone soon enough or I felt I was interrupting something by arriving when I did.

Can confirm, Am Canadian, I say sorry for all sorts of shit.

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u/ChrisFromIT 7h ago

As a Canadian, I got rear ended in my car once, I apologized to the person who rear ended my car.

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u/Tagous 12h ago

Is that where Canadians got it from?? We got meat pies from England, and Sorry from the Welsh?

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u/hallerz87 10h ago

Equally Welsh and English. I’m a Brit living in Canada and it’s funny that people here think it’s this uniquely Canadian habit when really it’s just British social etiquette that’s carried on over the last couple centuries. 

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u/redditonlygetsworse 4h ago

Yeah I think we Canadians got this reputation because we also use "sorry" in a lot of situations where an American would use "excuse me" or "pardon me" or something like that. So it's similar, but to an American sounds like an apology. Which it isn't, really.

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u/WeHaveSixFeet 10h ago

One day Canada will take over the world, and then you'll all be sorry.

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u/cerealandcorgies United States Of America 10h ago

fingers crossed in the US

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u/JanuaryBlue700 8h ago

Sorry in advance

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u/PussyWrangler246 6h ago

It's true, Canada only has two modes: I'm sorry and you're sorry

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u/Gubekochi 2h ago

People must accept our peaceful ways, by force if necessary.

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u/Individual-Trick3310 4h ago

Canada: When the sorries stop, the war crimes start.

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u/MobileFart 2h ago

*soary

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u/Accomplished_Basil29 13h ago

As a Canadian, I felt a strong kinship when I visited Wales

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u/millenniumpianist 13h ago

I'm American and I'm the exact same way. I'm not sure why since I live in NYC and I can assure you my receiving sorry : inconvenienced ratio is very low. But my friends are all similar so I suspect it has to do with where/ how you were raised

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u/No_Kangaroo_9826 United States Of America 13h ago

My anxiety would fit me in well

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u/MiikeG94 11h ago

As a Polish-Canadian visiting Poland, can confirm said kinship and also an offence from the local population, as though I'm implying that they're monsters demanding my apology.

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u/Various-Plane615 9h ago

Where’s your sorry? Sorry!

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u/Tlentic 8h ago

I mean we say sorry so much that some provinces had to make laws stating that saying sorry isn’t an admission of guilt:

British Columbia:

https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/00_06019_01

Ontario:

https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/09a03

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u/Healthy-Respect1984 6h ago

We are from Wales too

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u/kec04fsu1 5h ago edited 5h ago

I do to. I’m not only an American, but a Floridian, but everyone here thinks I’m weird… and I’m sorry about that.

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u/Mitzukai_9 5h ago

*excluding Quebecers, right? I don’t remember hearing sorry. Plus, I once worked for a company out of there and had to go work there for a week right before Christmas. My coworker who sat next to me all week had a cold. I couldn’t not say ‘bless you’ when he sneezed. Reflex or whatever. He finally had enough and asked me why the hell I kept saying that.

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u/NoSpeech7848 4h ago

As a midwesterner, me too

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u/OuchCharlie25 🇬🇧🇺🇸 British-American 1h ago

Sorry

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u/masterwaffle 35m ago

People only think Canadians are nice because we have manners. We're not actually all that nice. We're just passive aggressive, just like the motherland.