SUBWAY SYSTEMS
New York: Crowded. Dirty. Slow.
Paris: Crowded. Clean. Fast.
BATHROOMS
New York: Shower and toilet are in the same room. Shower head is on the wall.
Paris: Shower and toilet are in separate rooms. Shower head is not mounted. Awkward on all counts.
PROCRASTINATION
New York: Sporcle, or Huggles common room.
Paris: Go out to a bar called, "The Cube," where the bar table is made of ice. And update this blog.
CARNIVORE STATUS
New York: I eat meat, usually chicken, rarely red.
Paris: Jean Paul serves me plates upon plates of red meat. Yesterday's lunch was five different kinds of sausages. Today was leftovers, plus bacon.
PEDESTRIAN TACTICS
New York: Keep walking until the red hand stops flashing. Even then, you can attempt to run.
Paris: ONLY walk when the green man is flashing AND when you ADDITIONALLY see other people walking. Otherwise, you WILL be run over by cars coming out of nowhere.
MOVIES
New York: The best theaters are filled with old European art-house films.
Paris: The best theaters are filled with old American Hollywood films.
POLITICS
New York: People like Barack Obama.
Paris: People like Barack Obama.
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The Cube was actually invented by a group of polite mothers, because they REALLY wanted people to learn to keep their elbows off the table.
ReplyDeleteBut I think you've forgotten that in the American Huggles common room, the tables are made of EmKap. So it's really just win-win.
Also, SAUSAGESAUSAGESAUSAGESAUSAGESAUSAGE Jealous.