bizarre day
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bizarre day
A classic day in the pool of murk i live in!
Arrived at work today only to be told of a detour to the maries office for a morning brunch was arranged after i left the night before.
its quite a large ville so the maries a bit of a head honcho in these parts.
myself and 15 other oddballs had been invited because of several public works that the company i work for had undertaken in the year and he wanted to meet and greet.(bizarre)
very old building,loads of antiques,pictures and other french furniture.30 mins of wibble on enterprise then talked one by one to each of us.
interesting reaction when told i was a foreigner working here same response of why and what i was doing here rings in my ears regularly.
everybody stopped and watched my response felt a right lemon although i responed well.
can not really see the point of it all, bit of a time waste?
i was standing next to the presidents official picture what a midget!!at least he's got carla i suppose!!
there goes my day!!
do'nt think you get the same in britain.
Arrived at work today only to be told of a detour to the maries office for a morning brunch was arranged after i left the night before.
its quite a large ville so the maries a bit of a head honcho in these parts.
myself and 15 other oddballs had been invited because of several public works that the company i work for had undertaken in the year and he wanted to meet and greet.(bizarre)
very old building,loads of antiques,pictures and other french furniture.30 mins of wibble on enterprise then talked one by one to each of us.
interesting reaction when told i was a foreigner working here same response of why and what i was doing here rings in my ears regularly.
everybody stopped and watched my response felt a right lemon although i responed well.
can not really see the point of it all, bit of a time waste?
i was standing next to the presidents official picture what a midget!!at least he's got carla i suppose!!
there goes my day!!
do'nt think you get the same in britain.
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Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 10,551
Re: bizarre day
A classic day in the pool of murk i live in!
Arrived at work today only to be told of a detour to the maries office for a morning brunch was arranged after i left the night before.
its quite a large ville so the maries a bit of a head honcho in these parts.
myself and 15 other oddballs had been invited because of several public works that the company i work for had undertaken in the year and he wanted to meet and greet.(bizarre)
very old building,loads of antiques,pictures and other french furniture.30 mins of wibble on enterprise then talked one by one to each of us.
interesting reaction when told i was a foreigner working here same response of why and what i was doing here rings in my ears regularly.
everybody stopped and watched my response felt a right lemon although i responed well.
can not really see the point of it all, bit of a time waste?
i was standing next to the presidents official picture what a midget!!at least he's got carla i suppose!!
there goes my day!!
do'nt think you get the same in britain.
Arrived at work today only to be told of a detour to the maries office for a morning brunch was arranged after i left the night before.
its quite a large ville so the maries a bit of a head honcho in these parts.
myself and 15 other oddballs had been invited because of several public works that the company i work for had undertaken in the year and he wanted to meet and greet.(bizarre)
very old building,loads of antiques,pictures and other french furniture.30 mins of wibble on enterprise then talked one by one to each of us.
interesting reaction when told i was a foreigner working here same response of why and what i was doing here rings in my ears regularly.
everybody stopped and watched my response felt a right lemon although i responed well.
can not really see the point of it all, bit of a time waste?
i was standing next to the presidents official picture what a midget!!at least he's got carla i suppose!!
there goes my day!!
do'nt think you get the same in britain.
#3
Re: bizarre day
Luckily we have a mixed variety of immigrants in Paris, so the locals don't care much. Sometimes people will look when they hear you're not French, but I've never been asked why I moved here. I went to a remote part of Ardeche once to a B&B and the owners (nice folk) had never had an English visitor in 3 years. When I told them I hope they might have a few more British visitors to follow now, they said 'No, not too many we hope'! I think there are parts of France where the French prefer to keep themselves to themselves.
I've been confused for Irish and Dutch (twice), which I find a little strange.
I've been confused for Irish and Dutch (twice), which I find a little strange.
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Re: bizarre day
Yep! get that faint banjo sound in my head.....
and the classic "not from around these parts are you boy..." feeling regularly
and the classic "not from around these parts are you boy..." feeling regularly
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Re: bizarre day
The other day I was asked how long I'd been here and my reply was "far too bloody long!" - that brought the conversation to a swift end and I could get back to work!!