Quelle fucking impolitesse!

It only takes one rude person to put a negative light on a beautiful day. This goes in any culture, but when you want to tell a kid to pull his head out of his ass, a direct translation is a bit weird. It would be so much easier if I was a little cooler under pressure and if rude people were not so damn rude!
I ran into a teacher I know just moments after an altercation with a student, whose name I never caught, and the prof's suggestion was to just lay into them in English. "They won't understand anything but the F-word and they may understand just how angry you are," he suggested.

Of course it wasn't the littering, which began the encounter, that made me angry, but the general attitude of what I try not to generalize as the attitude of the youth in France, but single out as individuals being impolite. Really impolite.

On a lighter note, we're gonna go to a Cote-Rotie wine expo in a small town named Ampuis. I hope we find it with no trouble... or more importantly, I hope we find our way home!

Here, now, are some soothing images.






- Patrick