January 23, 2003
You never know who you might meet
Walking home with Nicole from dinner down this little street in Paris, practicing our pronounciation of "t'es une tête de noeud", a new expression I learnt at work today. A man was walking behind us so I joked that perhaps we shouldn't practice that particular expression in public. But we continued doing so.
We'd just walked past Guy Savoy's restaurant when the man turned off to enter the restaurant, to a chorus of "Bonsoir Monsieur"s. Nicole gasped, "oh my god, that was Guy Savoy." The man. The chef. Walking behind us. As we practiced how to say in french "you are a dickhead".
Score minus one for class.
Posted by toby at January 23, 2003 09:15 PMJust because you overhear people talking about you at work you shouldn't walk down the street trying to repeat what they said. Let this be a lesson to all of us.
Posted by: Cynical Mean Guy at September 26, 2003 10:36 AM