Funny Story from France
I am running around Europe for the next few weeks so here is a true story for your pure entertainment value only. If you have ever thought A Year in Provence was fictitious read on.
We have a very nice Scottish guy currently decorating the inside of the house. We are moving back to the UK (more on this soon). Like many Brits who live in France his French is …well not fluent. A few weeks ago his French neighbor came knocking at his door and asked if he had lost his cat as there was a dead one on his front garden that had been run over by a car. Two weeks earlier his cat had gone missing so he nodded profusely and asked in his broken French if he could come up and see it. “Oui, Oui”….and off he trotted. When he got up the the house the neighbors wife came out screaming and shouting in French clearly distraught at the death of the family pet. He tried to calm her down but the language got in the way so he made some polite excuses and left, pronto.
A week later he was driving up the road in his car with his wife when the neighbors wife came running out, again screaming and shouting and this time banging on the car windows. His wife who speaks better French got out and starting talking to the French neighbors wife.
It turned out that the neighbor had actually originally come down to ask if he had seen anyone who ran over his cat, he had of course replied, “yes can I come and see it” and ……all I can say is
