One of the many faces of France, its strikes, has popped out during the last months. Two transport strikes in less than a month is just too much. Even the French, who take strikes as a god given right, have started to get pissed at the transporters. Why should they retire at 50 while the rest of the people retire later?
I never knew so many people could fit in a sigle wagon. I never laughed so hard at the French people covering their noses with their scarfs because of the smell of a clochard.
There other things that amaze me. The strike itself is so organized you chan check at the tranporter’s webpage the frequence and percentage of trains currently rolling through the streets. I wonder, if they are on strike, who is in charge of updating these pages? Wouldn’t we all be better off if that person rose from its chair and started driving one of the trains?
I like the French way for some things, but this is way too much.
Photo taken by awk @ the Eiffel Tower in Paris (October 2007)
