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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Rambi who wrote (7398)2/14/1998 7:11:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White  Read Replies (3) of 71178
 
Not to worry penni -- in general, the French consider any admonition against doing something to be a perfectly good excuse to do it. I have it on good authority that they specifically target "no smoking areas" (there are a total of nine of them in the entire country) as especially good locations to light up. Ditto a sign you will sometimes see in parks in Paris that says, "Absolutely No Dogs Allowed!!" Something about their general love of sneering at anything that smacks of "abusive" authority above and beyond their own view of what makes perfectly good sense to them.

Along these lines, I understand that the French are first among all developed nations in the number of unchecked voice mails and emails on their company telecommunications systems. It is the height of futility to leave a voice mail message or an email for a Frenchman. They consider these technological advances to be an insult to their perquisite to be selective in whom they elect to allow in their infinite wisdom to speak or write to them.
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