my saturday morning boyfriend is a my vendor of delicious fruits and legumes, my darling pal momo. i do believe that i have solidified the relationship of being his favorite customer. his stand is the first that i go to every saturday, and it is generally the only one where i buy my goods. he treats me like a queen, always there with a plastic bag for me to fill with the finest exotic fruits, ready to take my strawberries and put them in a little paper sac, keeping all of my goods in a pile until i am ready to go, and giving me sections of orange, pomegranate, and today, some strange looking fruit that i decided to buy because they looked fun. he is wonderful. oh, and we now do the bises when i come to visit and before i leave. and momo hooks me up with a deal - no, not 20 euros today, but 15, as i am a loyal customer. and he is beginning to give me free whole fruits, too. i feel the same way about this stand as i did about the one i worked at in madison. if all fails with the career in international policy, i will work at a fruit stand in paris.
and as for the racist german store...lidl...how could you betray me like so? a huge lidl just opened a block away from where i live, which is wonderful because lidl has the cheapest food in the world. i love it. and the fact that it is so close makes it even better. i went to check out and had everything bagged up in the sweet, re-usable lidl canvas/plastic bag i decided to purchase today (hey, come on now, i cant use my re-usable ed bag in lidl - that would just be mean). i gave the girl my american credit card. no dice. american debit card. no dice. now i began to worry, as i can't use my french carte bleue until november, as they set really low limits on the amount of money you can take out each month, as well as the amount you can charge to your card. now let me say that i have used my american debit and credit cards in paris very, very successfully (sorry about that, nancy), and i have even used them at lidls before. but alas, not today. my cards got shut down. so what did i do, you may be asking? i went and got cash. yes, they let you do that here. i just left my bag of goodies there and walked a block to the atm, and successfully used my american debit card to take out cash (see, it does work). i waited in the same line as before, got up there, gave the girl the cash, bada-bing bada-boom, i was done. now i know that i have to take cash there. see, a lesson learned. (or i just have to make sure to not max out my carte bleue the weekend before i go to lidl)
one thing that i would like to mention is that you can eat so cheaply in this city. i bought enough produce at the market to feed a small army. and you just cant beat lidl's prices (even if they hate my plastic). and as i told a co-worker the other day, "i would rather wear my money than eat it."
enough said.
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