Wednesday, November 4, 2009

WRC - THE CITROEN TEAM

This is the Citroen Race Team. They stayed at the same hotel that we did. Every night I would hear someone running down the hall. Then I'd hear someone again running. This kept happening every night. Finally, the last night, I got up and went to the door and looked out the peephole. It was one (or more, who knows?) of the team member jogging through the halls. We ate breakfast 2 mornings with them. I can look at the team picture and remember most of them. You had to pay for the breakfast when you booked your room, so to make sure no one ate without paying, they didn't have any silverware there. You had to go to the front desk and ask for silverware. If you look at the team members in red and find the tallest guy, he is the one who asked me (in halting English with a French accent) where the silverware was. I pointed to the front desk and told him he had to go ask for it. One morning, we were eating breakfast and one of the team members came in. He walked over to a table where 2 older men sat and went up to each one and kissed them on each cheek. At first I was like, "Hey that guy just kissed that guy!" But then I saw him do it to the other guy and I remembered that that is how the French greet each other. A kiss on each cheek. If they really like someone, they will do it a
3rd time back on the first cheek.


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