Reply #66: they were nice to me in paris

[pitohui]

and my french, such as it is, consists of maybe five very badly mispronounced words

i think if you're REALLY pathetic, they don't pick on you

they might pick on pretenders or social climbers who don't speak french well enough to meet their haughty standards but if you're obv. just hopeless they don't pick on us :-)

that's my latest theory, since my friends who speak french are the ones who say more about "rude paris" than those of us who are happily clueless

i thought it was great!