A N T I C I P A T I N G --- yet trying to live life in the moment

April 19, 2007

How do you say man hating bitter woman in French?

After just a few days in Paris I've realized that the whole french are assholes business is a huge fraud, directed at americans or maybe the whole world, just to keep tourist levels manageable. I went to France prepared to brush off a few totally rude frenchman without getting myself pissed off and regretting I'd flown 7 hours to get there, but that never came to pass. Except for a few weird moments, a taxi driver that barely stopped the car when I needed to get out, which I think was mostly a misscommunication, cause if he didn't speak english, how would he know stop here, and when the door was flung open by me, he didn't errupt into a merde or sacre bleu or you moron tourists are trying to kill yourselves by opening a door in a moving car, instead he accepted my friend's euro, albeit never fully stopping, but It was probably more of a I'll stop on a proper corner instead of the middle of a busy street vs. I refuse to stop, just jump out! Then there was the ticket guy at the theater who asked us if we were students, which seemed rude for a second, as if he were commenting on our age, making fun of us, but then in an instant realized he genuinely thought we were students and was asking if we had student id's so he could provide us a discounted ticket, not exactly barbaric behavior, and in afterthought really quite sweet.

In fact, I'll take it a step further and say at some point the french gathered up their assholes loaded them on a plane and sent them to NY and Miami where they live among us and seize every opportunity to piss one of us off. I've dated 2 frenchman in the U.S., both dicks, one thought I acted stupid around my friends, had no personal scent (whatever the fuck that means) and the other asked me what I did at the gym precisely at the moment I got up from my bed naked to get him a glass of water post our mediocre sex, I'll translate further, I think he had sized up my figure as not quite fit enough for him and was also accusing me of doing something other than go to the gym on the afternoons and evening I claimed to be working out.

Cest la vie --- Can't blame the french for me dating 2 total assholes. I could flood the internet and crash entire servers if I suddenly decided to type out every scenario where a guy did something rude or said something unkind to me. I doubt any guy I dated in NY would remain unmentioned, cause if I had to name a city that had assholes to spare, it would be this one.

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