vendredi 1 juin 2007

The customer is always WRONG...and should be assaulted

Tonight I had a great time with my aussie friend Mia...We began the evening in Mia's apartment, looking out the window onto the fabulous eiffel tower while eating chocolate, cherries and drinking red wine...after a few hours of this, we decided that we couldn't possibly eat chocolate for dinner and that we must head out and about in search of the finest in french cuisine - which led us of course to Mcdonalds!! Ok, so maybe its not french cuisine - but it was all we could find open for dinner at 11pm...

The fun began with a confusing few minutes spent ordering - Mia ordered fries and a filet-o-fish but no drink (pas de boisson!) but the guy thought she said "pas de poisson" - here was our first problem - boisson (drink) and poisson (fish) sound remarkably similar - but the poor guy was trying to work out why she wanted a filet-o-fish with no fish.....until we explained that she had said boisson and not poisson and that she just didn't want a drink....first complication over!

Then, as we were quietly seated in Mcdonalds luxury we suddenly heard a large crashing sound. As we looked up we noticed that it was nothing more than a chair which had been knocked, tumbling down the stairs...we looked over to the culprit who looked slightly embarrassed - poor guy we thought - it was a bit embarrassing...but what we didn't realise was that the act of him knocking a chair down the stairs was obviously a gross insult and offensive act to those working at Mcdonalds - the manager on dining room and the manager in the kitchen came running over to see what all the noise was about and made a human wall at the bottom of the stairs to block him from leaving the store...as he came down the stairs to try to leave, the managers started yelling abuse at him - as the guy tried to assure the management that he hadn't done it on purpose (which it didn't seem like he had! the poor guy looked too embarrassed to have done it deliberately) they decided that this was unthinkable - it was obviously an act of malicious intent - so they began to push him around...the guy kept protesting that it was an accident - wrong response -this resulted in him being kicked in the stomach by the manager...as this went on, 2 employees working in the kitchen felt that they were also offended by the chair falling down the stairs and came out to help the managers kick the guy and escort him out of the store!

And it was at that moment that Mia and I remembered that we were in France! - the customer is always right? N'importe quoi!!!

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