Interesting. I had no idea that the Canadian lifestyle is so marked by streamlined efficiency that it puts American fast-food chains to shame.<p>I live in Finland. The cliché about Finns is that they are stolid and quiet... But the upside of the "default silence" is that people generally pay attention when someone is talking. It feels very foreign that I would accidentally get both milk and sugar in my coffee because the person behind the counter wasn't actually listening to me, but instead just detecting keywords in my speech.