Funny story. Wife and I were walking around Epcot in Disneyqorld some years ago; went to the France part (or whatever it was called. We needed directions to the Italian restaurant we wanted to eat at when we ran into one of the workers, a young(er) French lady who was interning there. I spoke to her briefly in French. Wife just stared at me until I told her it was just a common greeting (which it was)