Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Most of my local friends had been following the Vancouver Olympics and had seen that last breathtaking hockey game between Canada and the U.S. Imagine how touched I was when I walked into a pub where there were about twenty of these friends and they all started singing "Oh Canada." And not just "Oh Canada, la la la la la la". Well, there were some of those in the crowd. But many of them knew all the words and they sang the whole anthem. The whole bloody thing. Even the barflies that I didn't know raised their glasses and mouthed a few words. How gracious! I was truly touched.