Conversing Like A Local
Manitoban #1: Don't forget to bring some dainties to the social next weekend.
Manitoban #2: Me and mine will be late, we're at the lake until 6 and then we have to pick up the holubsti from her ma. We're not signed up for dainties.
M. #1: Right. Remind her she still has my snow machine.
Translation:
I Have No Idea.
That's not actually true. It's pretty clear that these two are discussing meeting at a fundraiser gathering that is somewhat akin to a real life GoFundMe page, bringing sweet desserts cut into small squares which include but are not limited to brownies, bars, cookies, pastries, sweetmeats, truffles and petit fours, and collecting cabbage rolls and a stolen skidoo from a thieving old lady. Like normal people do.
What's most confusing is the use of the phrase "the lake", which could refer to any of 100,000 lakes in Manitoba but it's more likely one of the two biggest lakes closest to Winnipeg, Manitoba, the names of which are on the tip of my tongue but I just can't quite recall...
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