There is a tourist bus that does the rounds of Paris and you can get on and off all day, or actually for several days. They give you earphones and you can plug into the system and listen to a commentary of the city. Really worth doing if you are going there.
It was very wet for the first couple of days and the bus is open at the top so water can generally do what water does and pour lower and lower. The seats downstairs, on the double decker bus were wet in places. We tried to help by putting out tourist map down on the seat to absorb the water- how helpful!
Eventually, after moving around to chat and to avoid water, we left the wet map several seats behind without even thinking about said map.
Two very well dressed Western Block ladies came and hopped into the seat containing the water absorbing map. They sat. They warmed the seat. They (as it turns out) marinated the rain and map ink.
So one of the ladies hopped up and the map was stuck to her very expensive silver (or taupe) raincoat. Her Gucci handbag held, in her gold encrusted fingers was balanced out to the side and stylishly the map imitated this left leaning feature. The two ladies hopped out of the bus to a few giggles (you have to remember we had overtired hysteria by this stage) so map stuck to ladies butt was rather funny.
Then the other rather overly well dressed lady notice the map and from the side, removed it. ONLY to reveal to the rest of the passengers on the bus that the ink had imprinted a map of Paris on the poor ladies jacket, which set the whole bus alight.
I guess it could be handy if you had recently moved to Paris, to have a map of the city on your best raincoat, but I suspect she was not as amused by it as the rest of the bus was!
It was very wet for the first couple of days and the bus is open at the top so water can generally do what water does and pour lower and lower. The seats downstairs, on the double decker bus were wet in places. We tried to help by putting out tourist map down on the seat to absorb the water- how helpful!
Eventually, after moving around to chat and to avoid water, we left the wet map several seats behind without even thinking about said map.
Two very well dressed Western Block ladies came and hopped into the seat containing the water absorbing map. They sat. They warmed the seat. They (as it turns out) marinated the rain and map ink.
So one of the ladies hopped up and the map was stuck to her very expensive silver (or taupe) raincoat. Her Gucci handbag held, in her gold encrusted fingers was balanced out to the side and stylishly the map imitated this left leaning feature. The two ladies hopped out of the bus to a few giggles (you have to remember we had overtired hysteria by this stage) so map stuck to ladies butt was rather funny.
Then the other rather overly well dressed lady notice the map and from the side, removed it. ONLY to reveal to the rest of the passengers on the bus that the ink had imprinted a map of Paris on the poor ladies jacket, which set the whole bus alight.
I guess it could be handy if you had recently moved to Paris, to have a map of the city on your best raincoat, but I suspect she was not as amused by it as the rest of the bus was!
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