Shut the front door!

We were relaxing on the foredeck, enjoying a glass of wine under a starlit sky and listening to the gentle surf splash against the beach, the only noise in the anchorage. The only noise, that is, until a jet took off from the island airport. I wanted to yell, “Shut the #$% up!”, and probably even did.

When visiting our son and his family in PEI in May 2010, we laughed when our daughter-in-law Laura came out with “Shut the front door!” meaning “get out of town” or “no way” or “you’ve got to be kidding”. I guess it could also mean simply “shut up”.

It’s so much more ladylike than “Shut the #$% up!” and has become a staple on CanKata.