Darcy's Paris Blog

Uneventful Monday

Nothing too eventful, just a pretty average day. Traffic was horrendous this morning. Good grief. The only other thing of note was that I went grocery shopping at lunch, and it’s a major hassle to pay by credit card for me. All the French credit cards have a chip built-in that stores a 4-digit code. When you pay, you have to enter that code, kindof like an ATM. So since my year-2005 card doesn’t have the chip, they had to call someone over to the check-out line (who came by roller skates, of course,) then he had to call some external phone number to get some code, then they had to scan my card a different way, etc. All of this is going on while the charming French people in line behind me are smiling very cordially, of course. :)

Oh, I think the guy at my parking garage tried to ask me out. I understood him asking me if I work on Saturday, then something about drinking or eating with him, with me… Not sure if I’d call it better luck than at home or not, but the hit rate is certainly higher…

posted by Darcy @ 10:52 PM