what makes you think I'm from (shudder) TORONTO?!

Well, since you don't actually say where you're from, and you've mentioned Stratford and Toronto (or is it their film festival?) in other posts, Toronto seemed like a good representative city of what the rest of us call "Southern Ontario". It's all the same weather, anyway (which I believe is what affects their choice of not using flow-locks in most of the country - apparently they fail much more readily in the cold).