Re: CHAT: A pretty bad language joke :]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Patrick Dunn wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>
> > > Very true. But you can replace it by the fact that French people eat a lot of
> > > bread. So much that in most restaurants bread is free, as well as water.
> >
> >
> > I have a funny story...I went into a cafe the first time I was in Paris,
> > in 1995 (well, maybe second time; I was two months away from being born
> > there!). I asked what is a croque monsieur, and the man there told me to
> > leave...then I went to another place, where they were nice and told me
> > what it is, and I had three, and afterwards I had a big argument with the
> > waiter, I left him 10 francs for pourboire and he yells at me, you forgot
> > your money, and I said, no that's for you, he said, but you already paid,
> > I said, yes I know, that's a pourboire, and he didn't seem to understand,
> > he kept trying to give it back, until I decided, enough of this and left
> > the cafe and the money there...
>
> Why were you told to leave the first time?  Are the French really that
> rude?  :)
Either because he thought I was an imbecile for not knowing what a croque
monsieur is, or because he didn't appreciate my Rivethead's Finest
dress...

But, my sister had a similar thing happen in the south of France. She
asked someone at the tourist office how to get to Jausiers (I think that's
the name of the place) near Vers, and the bloke called her an
imbecile...however, my sister speaks French perfectly...

-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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