The bathtub

If there’s one thing that really bothers me about the French, it’s that they really don’t care about other people. A common French expression is ils sont foutent which means “They don’t give a crap”. As you probably already saw in our wonderful parking spot the other day, the French don’t give a crap but the dogs do.

But it’s not only the dogs that are leaving things in the street. Take this lovely item for example, that was conveniently dropped off in front of our building:

This item suddenly appeared over a week ago. We, like everyone else in our building, thought it’d just disappear. But it hasn’t. And worse, people walking down the street think it came from our building. The two buildings on both sides of ours are brand new, so it didn’t come from there. So where did it come from? And how did they choose our building for it’s new home?

Even funnier is that it isn’t in its original spot. People have been moving it as needed to make room for their cars! In France there is a rule that you can’t leave a car on the street for more than a week without moving it. So I’m hoping the police will give it a ticket and maybe even haul it away.

Slim chance of that happening. I asked my wife about it tonight, she said it doesn’t bother her. Which I think sums up the problem rather nicely. The French not give a crap about anything really. Well except for American politics, then they’re real activists. Sorry if I seem bitter but my building has turned into a junkyard .

And if you’re thinking why don’t I do something about it, well I’m open to suggestions. Just what does one do with an abandoned bathtub in front of their building? The only thing I know to do is to wait until the Thursday when they collect oversized garbage. Only thing is I don’t know which Thursday it is so it might be a few more weeks.