Funny Comments

I heard a couple of interesting comments yesterday and I jotted them down so as not to forget them.

I've been waking up pretty early so yesterday I got into work before everyone else arrived. Sebastien, my Project Lead, walked into the office singing an American pop song and after dropping some stuff off at his computer he came over for a quick chat. He asked if we liked our new apartment and I told him it was very nice, but the floors creak and groan a lot, and the toilet is in a very small separate room.

With a wry smile Sebastien said, "Ah, now you understand. Your new apartment is almost older than your country!"

Then at lunch everyone was talking about what they did over the weekend. Clement, an amazing artist on my team, told the group, "We went to London for the weekend."

I did a double take.

I guess I forgot that we live in Paris now because that seemed like a completely outlandish concept. Who goes to London for the weekend??? Oh, yeah, people in Paris can do that because it only takes a couple of hours now. Being able to travel to a bunch of differnt countries in only a few hours is such a foreign concept to a guy who just drove almost 20 hours to get from Seattle to Casper, Wyoming.

It costs about 50 Euros to take the Eurostar from Paris to London