Cait- Do I ever have a Sladjy story for you!
Dante- Tell me the story!
Cait - Ok so I am lying half asleep in bed this morning, when my cell ring
Dante- What time?
Cait - 8 am, way earlier than I'm used to
Dante- got it, oh yeah, I hear that
Cait -So, it's Sladj
Cait- Hysterical Sladj
Cait -I just want you to imagine what that sounds like
Dante- I am trying
Cait - She was crying and obviously very upset
Dante - It hurts my ears
Cait -and the only words I could make out were 'police' and 'metro'
Dante -What??
Cait -so I'm like "What is it Sladjy?"
Cait -and then a French women is put on the phone
Cait -and by French women, I mean female police officer
Dante -OK
Cait - So at this point i'm starting to wake up a little
Dante-Haha,as you would
Cait -I am trying to string together a French sentence
Cait -while the woman is talking about a ticket
Cait -and about the metro
Cait -and it clicks
Cait -Sladj got busted on public transport with no ticket
Dante -Oh no
Dante -haha
Dante - Why is there a cop involved??
Cait -Also, please keep in mind that the only advice that Cory our agent gave us was 'steal as much public transportation as possible'
Dante - LOL
Dante - good advice...until you get busted
Cait -What I managed to piece together from the broken Slovie-English was that the tram or metro stopped in front of the university and there was a full swat team of officers waiting to bust evil student transport stealers
Dante - wow and double wow
Cait - And it turns out, a very common scheme when you get busted is to pretend you don't speak French
Dante - That happened to me in Paris a few times but I had my ticket
Cait -Well slaj had no ticket
Cait -and she really can 't speak French
Cait -but she made the fatal flaw of saying 'je ne parle pas francais'.
Cait -Which, according to French police, is a dead give-a-way that you can.
Dante - And they weren't buying it
Cait -Yeah, so five male officers were harassing her and telling her she could speak French
Cait -and kept calling her a liar.
Dante - Wow that sucks.
Dante -French bastards! so that made you her guardian?
Cait -Anyway they got her good and riled up
Cait -which is not that hard to do, but I think they were actually very rude to her
Cait -and they demanded to see her passport.
Dante - Will this be a blog entry sometime soon?
Cait -Well you don't carry your passport around for the obvious reason that if it gets stolen you are stuck in France for the rest of your life
Dante -By the way do you keep the same hours as me...messed up?
Cait -Which is the equivalent of life in prison in some countries
Dante -Haha, exactly
Cait - PS yes, same hours, very messed up
Dante - Crappy prison with poop on the floor (FYI there is dog poop ALL over the sidewalks in France)
Dante - slippery poop
Cait -yes yes yes
Cait -I digress
Cait - At this point Sladjy pulled the fail safe and starting dialing her cellphone while the cops were yelling at her
Cait -which probably got her in more trouble.
Dante - Haha, no doubt.
Cait -So what would have been a 20 euro ticket became a 44 euro ticket because she didn't have her passport.
Dante - that makes sense
Cait -But let's be honest, it was France's way of punishing her for not having learnt French in 4 weeks
Cait -The End
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