Some of you may have heard about the protests and riots in France recently. Last week I watched a video of looters on one of the main streets downtown, right where we walked every day going to the office and school. Cars are burning and store windows being broken.
In our little apartment in Lyon, you could only get about 20 feet away from the kitchen. Even if you tried, that was as far as you could go and still be chez Masson. As a result, I seem to have lost the ability to cook and do anything else at the same time. Out of sight, out of mind. (Hence the burned lima beans at dinner.) So the lesson is that when you cook dinner in an American-sized house, watch out! It's not safe to leave the kitchen, even for a moment.
Likewise, when you go the mall in the US, be on alert. It's not like when you ride the bus to the centre commercial and then take it home again in a couple hours. Nope. You have to concentrate and make careful mental notes about where you parked you car! (Again, a skill I seem to have lost while living in France.) Losing an entire car... very big, expensive danger.
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