Wednesday, December 10, 2008

A couple of funnies from daily life

I was at Carefour today (kinda like a Walmart, but French). I was looking for door stops. Simple enough huh? Of course I knew they might be hard to find. I am in the hardware-like section of the store. I ask a man working there... do you carry door stops? Yes. Where are they? What? Where are the door stops? What? So this time I make hand gestures to help explain while I ask again... do you carry door stops? No mam, not here. Of course I realize he has no idea what I am talking about so I keep looking. Not 5 minutes later I am in that very same isle where he was stocking the shelf and I find door stops. The girls and I got a good laugh out of that one.

Our pool heater has not been working. The kids keep asking the security guard. He says in a few days they will come to fix it, they will come. Days go by, the kids still ask him and he repeats himself. Well this morning my neighbor asks. The security guard then shows her the switch for the pool heater (it is very typical for the security guard to actually "show" you the problem). She immediately sees that the switch is turned off. She turns it to the "on" position. The security guard asks her You fix? Yes, I think that I fixed it. Too funny heh?