{"id":22100,"date":"2013-02-04T10:54:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T16:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=18154"},"modified":"2016-09-19T17:15:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T14:15:52","slug":"early-morning-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/early-morning-visitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"

No sooner did I have the front door open this morning (the weather has been lovely enough to just use the screen door all day) and the truck started that there was a knock. Thankfully, I was dressed! I turned off the kettle as it was whistling and turned my attention to my visitor, a French Canadian gentleman with the very, very French Canadian name of Jean-Guy.<\/p>\n

He asked me if it was my wifi signal that he had picked up the night before on his booster. I explained that I use Verizon and he noted the info, impressed by the fact that I can use the voice plan in Canada<\/a>. The cost would be a bit much for someone looking just for email, but it sounds like he uses a lot of bandwidth as he actually understands the concept of bandwidth usage.<\/p>\n

I gently told him that I consider using those wifi boosters to seek and use open wifi signals is theft<\/a> (I put it much more politely than that). I said the same thing to the other French-Canadian couple parked near me. I have no problem with the idea of using one of those to get access to a McDonald’s connection from a parking lot since their wifi is free (no purchase necessary) and it’s too slow to be able to steal any bandwidth worth mentioning. But using one to find a random signal from a house in the wilderness is wrong, as evidenced by the fact that the signal was locked down while he was using it.<\/p>\n

He’s essentially traveling the same route as me, but backwards, and is headed for New Orleans, having stopped here to avoid the Super Bowl crowds.<\/p>\n

Finally, he asked me an amusing question, do I pass myself off as qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise or French Canadian? I replied the latter. He nodded in agreement, saying, “Me too! Franco-Ontarians and Franco-Manitobans hate our guts! Here’s a tip: don’t wave a Quebec flag around unless you want to alienate the neighbours!” I suddenly had this vision of him and his wife getting run out of a campground by a bunch of angry non-separatist French Canadians waving dirty sewer hoses!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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