I came across this twice last night apart from the 10+ other times it's already happened and I just thought I'd ask you all..

I work at a drustore and I live in a place where we get lots of Canadians for tourism, and when they come and pay they are just flabbergasted that we don't except Canadian currency, then they go on to saying: "Well it's okay, our dollar is going to be worth more than yours soon anyway" and i'm like "okay?" and then going on to call our money funny money, I almost find it kind of rude, they act oh so nice but are so snobby....

That's how it always starts too, they walk up and in a sarcastic voice say "I take it you don't take Canadian money right?" and me thinking their just joking around/being funny because I would think they know when you visit another country you usually pay with their currency say "naw I'm sorry" and then they get all "why not???" and get all defensive about it like I just told them their money was crap or something, then they go on to the "well, ours will be worth more than yours soon".

And the reason I'm posting this is because they ALL do that, and say the exact same thing, I almost wanted to say something back yesterday but hesitated because of my job's sake. Can we go to any place in Canada and pay with American money? And even if we couldn't I think it would be fun/cool using another currency, and would't at all tell Canadians in their faces their money was "funny money" or be like "well our money is worth more than yours" it just looks bad and is rude.

So my question/s is, can we pay with American currency anywhere in Canada? or do we need to pay in Canadian? Is it just me or is it rude when they tell me how "theirs will be worth more soon", and our money is "funny money".. And it's not like I'm rude to them or anything when they come in, I usually like to ask where in Canada they're from and go on saying how I'd like to take a drive up to B.C. but when they pull that bs I'm almost sorry I was nice to them because it steams me after the 10+ times hearing all that.

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