The usual...

 So I rented a car with Europcar...I am very proud that I can do all of these things in French. The woman was very nice but as usual, you always end up paying 2x the amount you thought for various reasons. 

She had set me up with some kind of Renault...she also tried to get me to take an automatic...No way! I can't drive an automatic...So she hands me the "key"..it was a small white remote...when I first saw it, I thought, no way...i'm gonna loose that for sure...small slippery, nothing to attach it to...so I went and looked at the car..black...good..but it was like flying a commercial airplane...had the key been a physical key, I would have proceeded....but no..I needed to make a change.

That car would have been perfect with that woman with the small suitcase and small carry on that I saw at the airport. I wish I could be that woman.

I went back down to the desk and the woman could nopt have been nicer. She gave me a  VW Polo...a nice blue, but I didn't know where it was, I walked up and down looking for it as she did not give me the new space #. Eventually,  I found it but my phone charger would not work with it and there was no one to help me...I eventually  found a man to sort me out...I needed a new USB cord and he thought I should go to the gas station and get a different USB cord...OK...better than changing the car again....ok...makes sense..

So I left and stopped at the gas station in the airport where fools buy last minute gas...There were many Police Nationale there hassling a taxi van driver.... I ran into the station and asked the cashier to help me...he was incredibly helpful and ran out to my car to help me find the correct wire...BUT, the cord was 29 euro! I need my Audible book! so I had to buy it...

I ran back to my house...loaded all, shut the house down...and loaded Rune into the car...He had to sit in the front seat. I know I am stressing him out..I feel terrible about it but I need to escape for awhile.I haven't been away for a year.

A thought I had which is very true...I don't have one man in my life, I have an unlimied supply. I am always asking a man to help me with something.....and they are always obliging. French men love to hear the american woman's accent speaking French so maybe this works in my favor but I don't even think about it..My french just flies...

I am lucky I am not inhibited about speaking...I have no idea why...I am so socially inhibited, shy, avoidant in life but speaking is somehthng I must have, like seeing, like hearing...I must speak so I just do. I can only imagine how bad it must sound to the french but as I have said many times, they appreciate you trying as they know it is difficult.