Tag: waiting
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Je me souviendrai
Will I remember that today I am a few minutes late for pick-up at my son’s school. Will I remember the overfilled parking lot, brimming with poorly parked cars and vans. How it always seems to be fathers who stop right there in the roadway to get their children with no regard to others waiting…
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Attendre
He drove an old silver Renault – dented and corroded in places, and it clearly hadn’t been washed in a while. Barely room enough for two, it resembled, as my sons like to say, a clown car. He slowed and rolled down the window to get my attention. “Madame? Vous êtes très sympathique…” he paused, …
40 Weeks in France 