Egads!
Has it really been a week since I updated the blog? Darn.

They say it takes three weeks to make or break a habit. Guess how long I was gone to France on vacation? Yep. Three delicious weeks!

It admittedly has been a bit difficult getting back into harness.

The French are Unanimous!

Every French man and woman that either my wife or I talked with about the subject said the same thing: Bush sucks!

Their comments included:

"He's a mental lightweight." (Although I think that may have been a translation error, in that they didn't know the English translation for the French midget.)

"He doesn't know what he is doing."

"Others are running your government for him."

A look on the bright side... seems the French and many Americans now agree on something. **grin**

Sitting Down on the Job

It must be the law. That's the only way I can figure it.

Every cashier at French supermarkets sit down. They have a chair to sit and they don't budge from it. Their scanning stations for the UPC codes on the groceries are lower to accomodate them too.

You have to bag your own groceries. They give you the plastic bags -- which are now universal over there. I didn't see anyone using their own mesh bags like they used to do it the past.

I hate to say it, but I think the supermarket cashiers are either ex-restaurant wait staff or they flunked out of waiter school. Not sure why, but I never ran into a friendly one the entire time I was in France.