Bonjour Pilgrims,
Just a short smug blog note about my triumph at the local post office here this morning. It has several "self service" machines where customers weigh their own packages and use the machine to pay for and dispense the postage.
I've been in this post office numerous times since arriving over 3 months ago and have been met with disdain, shoulder shrugs and kindness too but all through those visits I was watching and the last time I went a postal worker helped me use the machine. As his com-padres in the French Consulate back in Georgetown were thinking earlier this year, I guess he was feeling generous that morning. I paid particular attention to how he used the machine and this morning I went and used it myself after preparing a package of "bebe" clothing Cassie had purchased for my new grand-niece Macy Brooks Tucker. In fact the title above in French was what I wrote on the package and after obtaining the postage and giving it to the postal clerk who inspected it, she nonchalantly murmured, "bon", and we were done and the package was away.
I really feel like I'm getting the hang of this.
Just thought I'd share that.
Since I now have my residency card, I might as well act like I truly live here.
Bon journee,
A biento,
Sid
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