Re: CHAT: A pretty bad language joke :]

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?  :)

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