85. English words… turned French. (Examples: un parking, un brushing, un relooking)
86. Women on the bus who offer to close the window because it’s messing up your hair. Like that would ever happen on sweaty public transit in Boston.
87. Adults riding scooters.
88. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it: The wooden bucket I saw this morning at a construction site filled with steaming hot tar. Who needs fancy machines when a hunk of wood from 1960 does the trick just fine?!
[...] French means football, or soccer in American English. It’s not a French word at all, but an English word turned French. The kids I nanny for often ask me if we can Jeux au foot, or play soccer with the balloon in the [...]