Exercises, yuk. Just moved from SF to San Diego; what a difference, the place is clean, white, and at the pool you see soldiers with arms missing. Its great to be back in America. I am thinking about buying a gun, my french wife said she will divorce me, probably should have bought the gun earlier.
Your wife is no doubt proud of her French heritage. The solution is quite simple. Just start humming the 'Marseillaise' and quote ...
Aux armes, citoyens!
She'll get the point, real fast. Here is the full text in both French and English.
You shoulda gotten a German wife, dude. ;-)