Bullshit article
Spent a lot of time in France over the years
Freepers don’t know France
I don’t think it’s bull. The guy or gal who wrote it is French, for sure. We all notice these little differences when we travel, and it’s funny to read how we look from the outside.
Man, I did not like the way I’d wait in line somewhere in France, like at a ski lift, and people just shushed right in front of me over and over. And lots of lines in college didn’t look like lines - just chaotic students en masse pushing in front with elbows flying.
And chatting with strangers, wow, did i get into trouble doing that in France. Guys getting totally wrong impressions, lol. And blowing people’s minds if I asked them about products they were buying in the grocery store. They don’t really talk to strangers like we do. One of my work colleagues said it best: if you sit next to an American on the metro or bus, you know his entire sex life before you arrive. Lol! We are more open than we know.
Been to France, don’t need to go again.
One thing I’ll agree with him on - Fixed Shower Heads.
Any house or apartment I’ve lived in, the first thing I do is replace the shower head with a flexible multi-setting head with a long extension.
Gotta keep all the nooks and crannies clean, dontchano!
Well, I only went to France once as an adult in the mid-Seventies when I was in the Navy, to Brest. The people were damned rude to us and sure gave the outright impression they hated us.
It could have been the uniform. Who knows. But my everlasting impression of that place was typically passing an older French couple who openly glared at me.
And it wasn’t just me. It was a homogenous impression. Without exception, every guy I spoke to when I got back to the ship had the same experience.
I went there as a young teenager in the Seventies, and I don’t remember anything like that. But as an adult, my overriding impression of being in France was black dislike.