Quote Originally Posted by captain kong View Post
I was doing the Canadian Rockies along the Ice Field Parkway around the Athabasca Glacier on my way from Banf to Jasper.

An American tourist said to me `What a fantastic sight`.
I said `Yes but the view is spoiled by those mountains, if they wern`t there we could have a better view.`
The American looked at me and said, `What are you ? some kinda nut?`



I guess he didnt have too much of a sense of humour.
He must have been from the mid-west. Irony passed them by. Irony has a lot to do with salt air.