You sure they're not trying to be Cilla Black?

Don't start me on this...my gears go solid I buy sprog these 'little' drink things for his lunchbox...and pay 10c each for EACH carton, then we get 5c back for driving the blasted things to the depot, queuing up and returning them....I'm going to get him drinking beer for lunch...at least we get the same deposit back that we paid...it's a ripoff!! You try that with a kid every single day for its lunch, I'm usually up for a couple of Perriers in the daytime and a few beers? This is serious dosh when you add that equation to every family.

They're all on a par with nails scraping down a blackboard.

How do you know when to stop?

They call it an environmental fee or something.

I thought it was only half back on everything.

It's a real pain on the multipack products. Two 2l bottles of pop gets you pretty much the same quantity as a six pack of smaller bottles or 12 cans.

But the total deposits are respectively 20c, 60c and $1.20.

I used to take the empties back to the depot, making a detour on the way to a grocery shopping trip. 20 to 40 plastic bottles filling a back pack and a bag dangling from the handle bars on my bike. For all of a dollar or two

One winter the area in front the depot was iced up and dangerous and I stopped going.

With all the cans and bottles we probably pay an average of about $5 a week on deposits without any coming back now.

At least it gets recycled.

Better in Quebec where you take them back to the supermarket that you then shop at.

For all the fund raising that goes on nobody seems to want to do a house to house collecting them like they used to.

i can't imagine any other way

what you describe is backward to put it politely

There are many things in this part of Canada that are outdated. Sometimes it's a very good thing.

Other times not.

I still remember a few years ago when NB Power bills went up by 8% and the provincial government announced that bill-payers would get their 8 percents back.

Instead of of bills being adjusted before going out and the province making the appropriate transfer of funds, everyone was supposed to collect their monthly bills and then send them with an application form to an office so that staff would calculate 8% of 12 different bills for up to 380,000 accounts and then send that many cheques out

I Really need my Citizenship...I Promise I will stop this!

I'll get my wife and the stepkids to vote for you.

If you do something the PM likes there's the usual CEO job at NB Liquor waiting for you.

Some places, the hot and medium sauces are exactly the same on their wings

some use the word 'precede' instead of 'proceed'. This I find to be a common mistake coast to coast

girls (usually it is girls anyway) in supermarkets who are completely lost when I ask them for 4 oz or even half a pound of ham, yet they seems to understand the metric equivalent

trying to get help in supermarket to find a product; a clerk will be summoned and he/she will be no wiser. Then ask for the manager and the manager is never around.

stores that refuse to use the term 'assistant' or 'clerk' and use the snobbish equivalent 'associate'

ditto for 'pre-owned vehicle' when 'used car' will do perfectly well

when TV newscasts are labeled 'live' when one is shown a tape of something a few hours old

when models are labeled as being 'curvy' when in fact they are plus size or simply big

that idiotic banner 'breaking news' which is forever being used

10 minutes of commercials when a program (for instance coronation street) is only 20 minutes in length

TV broadcasters who announce a death and then continue the news with a bland expressionless look

over-rated weather reporters and i wonder what they do the rest of the time

gas companies which hike their fuel, out of the blue, by 10 cents a liter and all rush to fill up

reality TV

those real estate programs where hubby and wifie are looking for affordable digs, which are way over priced as we all know, and these are actors following a script and the viewers are naive enough to think this is genuine

Being shown by 5 different people to 5 different places in Home Depot for some crappy electrical thing we need and still not getting it because it's not in stock.

The phrase the guy at my office uses "I am going to place it into the Lord's hands" that one will get an awful comeback from me one of these days....

Being asked which part of Scotland/ireland i am from.

I thought you were from Australia

In my part of the woods we have one who always says 'God Willing' in response to a co-worker saying 'good evening, I am off, see you in the morning'.

Inshallah