in which i hang my head in shame

[fox]

so i go to amazon.ca to wish-list the dS dvds. spend a couple minutes being annoyed that i can't do this with a link from the amazon.com wish-list. get to where it asks me to enter a shipping address. click link. bypass "enter new address" in favor of selecting one of the addresses it already has on file for me, those being my old address and my current address. click "select" next to my current address.

nothing happens.

lather. rinse. repeat.

after a few minutes of this, i decide to enter it as a new address and get it overwith. enter address. click "submit."

address is rejected because my zip code is invalid. by which they mean, of course, that it's not a canadian postal code. but the field says "zip/postal code"! i try again. rejected again. no dice.

plaintive note to customer service. they recommend that i call their 877 number "due to the nature of [my] inquiry". i call. i get a (predictably) very nice woman who listens to my description of the problem, and then says, very nicely, that i need to add my address ...

... as a new international address.

me: oh my goodness. i must have looked right past that button.
she: that's quite all right. you see it now?
me: i'm so unaccustomed to thinking of my address as international.
she: well, yes, when you're on a canadian site from the united states, your address is international.
me: god, how awful and u.s.-centric of me!
she: [genial laughter]
me: now i have guilt.

so i did the international thing and entered the address and there i go, but dude, i've just reinforced one more canadian's impression of u.s. types as ignorant blinder-wearers ...

Comments

[lwood.livejournal.com]

That's only if you're scheduled to be invaded by Quebecois -- the rest of Canada, according to my limited experience, is Anglophonic. The Quebecois are just really annoying, which unfortunately may cause the Canadians to just give us Quebec instead of invading. We'll have to see.

-- Lorrie

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

it's not all the quebecois who are really annoying -- not even mostly, in my experience. it's just that the minority who are annoying are so annoying it's hard to see anything else.

damn shame, really.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Of course not -- it's never all-or-even-most of any stereotypical group who are jerks.

-- Lorrie

[thalia]

Oh, but I love Quebec. We spent a fabulous week in Montreal and Quebec City a few years ago. Yeah, the separatist movement gets a little annoying, but the Quebecois we met were all very nice. And apparently there's quite a bit of French spoken in New Brunswick, too... I never knew that, but I knew someone who was dating a Francophone from there.

Nothing against the rest of the country, either. Vancouver is one of my favorite cities ever. I want to move....

[lwood.livejournal.com]

While I've spent a couple days and nights in Port Coquitlam in Vancouver's suburbs, I didn't manage to visit Vancouver proper, which I rather regret. However, on that trip I did get to visit Victoria, over on Vancouver Island, and I liked it a lot -- okay, so it's a tourist trap, but it's a tourist trap with High Tea.

-- Lorrie