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After their flight to Winnipeg was cancelled due to intense fog, four strangers banded together to forge their way home in time for Christmas, not by plane, but by rental car.

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[–] snooggums@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did they all find love with their childhood sweethearts and ditch their spouses who were just trying to pay for their living expenses on a single income?

Yeah it's not a Hallmark movie unless there's a incredibly questionable romance and a underlying narrative of a busy urban woman leaving her career to live in a small white town where it's a bit backwater and yet incredibly modern.

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

The miracle was that there were four people all willingly going to Winnipeg in December.

[–] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

They better have listened to polka.

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

I've done this a few times... Once, the Via train Toronto to Montreal was delayed because of a 'jumper', and the related police investigation... Rather than just sit there, I went and rented a car, walked into the departure lounge and said, "I just rented a car, I'm going to Montreal, I have room for four people, I'm leaving in 5 minutes."

I got four older women who took me up on the offer, and I dropped them off at Dorval and Gare Central. We had a great time, but it was short lived. :)

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Today, in "you're lucky they didn't turn out to be a murderous psychotic couple" news..

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Must be a cultural thing... doesn't seem especially special or noteworthy to me.

[–] sik0fewl@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's Boxing Day. Hardly anything newsworthy has happened today in Canada.

[–] pbjamm@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

The best kind of days.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

None of the people boxing in the streets performed any impressive maneuvers this year? And no gangs breaking out into choreographed dance boxing battles? 2023 is disappointing.

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

I'd like to hear more "news" about people working together and things turning out okay in the end.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Well that's the most Canadian thing I've heard all day dontcha know