I was in a café today and there was a parrot in a cage that said, ‘Ça va? Ça va?’
Wow, I thought, a French speaking parrot…
***
I went to watch the finish of the Tour de France the other week.
All of France stops for the Tour.
Near me, an old lady remonstrated with a gendarme.
‘I don’t give a fart about the Tour de France,’ she told him. ‘I want to get across.’
All of France stops whether it wants to or not.
***
I was in a supermarket.
‘Bonjour,’ I made sure I said to the man on checkout. I like the manners of this formal society.
‘Bonsoir,’ he said.
Damn. It had gone after six. I should have checked the time. Stupid formal society.
***
‘I used to think that work was the most important thing in my life,’ she said.
‘Don’t tell me,’ I said, ‘then you fell in love, right?’
‘Yes.’ She smiled.
‘It’s a bit cliché isn’t it?’ I said.
She frowned at me.
My circle of friends in Paris is not expanding as fast as I thought it would…
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I went to see Sartre the other day.
I had some questions for him.
I stood there and looked down at him.
He didn’t say anything, of course.
They were stupid questions anyway.
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