I owe a friend of mine in Canadia some money after I pledged to support her in a charity event.  Since I owe her Canadian dollars I figure the least I can do is give her Canadian dollars in return, but obviously I don’t want to mail cash.  So I do what I always have done in situations like this, I go to the bank and request a money order in the currency I want to send — in this case getting a money order from my bank in Canadian dollars.

When I asked for this, the tellers at the bank looked at me like I just asked them for a hot dog made of kittens — that is to say a combination of absolute bewilderment and horror that anyone could possibly desire such a thing.  After consulting each other, the tellers decided that the only way to do this would be to go to the main branch downtown and ask them if they knew how to do such a thing.  So uh, I guess I’m just rudely sending a cheque in USian dollars then.