France Tales

I am happy to report that not all the French are in no particular hurry to help you. Twice in the last week we were in stores where some employees were on roller skates. Customer service people skating around the store, one even looked like Roller Girl from Boogie Nights. The first time we saw it, we were in LeClerc. Roller Girl was sprinting past us, I don’t know how you say “going really fast” when you are talking about roller skating, with the cash register drawer insert. It was surreal, I thought they might be shooting some French Heist type movie where the villainess holds up cashiers and then speeds away on skates with a Lacroix scarf trailing her in the wind. But no, she was really just replacing the drawer for the next cashier. Reality is overrated.

In Toulouse, at Carrefour, we saw another skater. This one male. He looked like he got lost on the way home from the skating rink though, maybe sometime in 1979. He twirled past us, yes he twirled, on his way to help a woman in the lingerie department. Reality is not so overrated.

It is a little unnerving when they speed past you, they always look in such a rush.

If only we could get those French hand dryers on skates, then we’d be set.