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Re: CHAT: A pretty bad language joke :]

From:Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 10, 2001, 21:26
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? :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.

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Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
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