Many people enjoyed a free breakfast on Saturday at Windsor, Ont.‘s restaurant, Toast, as an unknown American couple paid for everyone’s bill. The gesture acted as an apology for the rift between Canada and the U.S.

Windsorite Susan Taylor was at Toast, ready to pay for her breakfast when she was told the bill had been covered.

“The waitress made an announcement in the restaurant that this lovely couple in the corner is paying for everyone who is in the restaurant at the time for breakfast,” Taylor told AM800’s Mornings with Mike and Meg.

“She (the donor) said that she was American, and she just wanted to apologize,” said Taylor.

“She said she knows that their president has caused a rift in what was happening between our countries, and she wanted us to know that not all Americans are bad people.”

  • @[email protected]English
    36•24 hours ago

    I’m not gonna lead a gift horse to water

    What a joyously adorable mix of proverbs. This made me smile.

      • @[email protected]English
        7•19 hours ago

        It’s close, and malapropisms are great too, but they rely on a similar-sounding incorrect word being used in place of the correct word, usually resulting in hilarity. Your example is also hilarious, but I don’t think it counts as a malapropism, not to get all linguistically technical (okay, I will lol). Rick Perry saying states are “lavatories of innovation and democracy” instead of “laboratories” is a perfect and awesome example.

        The genius of @[email protected]’s comment was that they combined two relevant proverbs into a single equally relevant but hilarious one: “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink” + “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” = brilliance