Well that is not totally true. I did successfully complete a transaction at La Poste all in French. Everything in the present, correct gender with the noun, and a voila stamp on postcard. I was so pleased with myself that I thought that I would tackle getting Billy some new handkerchiefs, allergy season has hit him HARD!
In the center of Toulouse there are several large department stores and many stores that specialize in men's clothing stores. Well after confusing many and pantomiming sneezing more that once here are the results.
I was offered tissue twice and I was sent from one store to another with no success. I told my French friend what I was up to she explained two important pieces of information.
First, The French think that reusing a handkerchief is kind of unsanitary so they really don't have anyone to sell them to.
Second, apparently I got the pronunciation quite wrong and I was saying,
"I want the Fly for men." Fly being the buzzing annoying type, thankfully the double meaning we have here in the US does not exist in French! Now that would have been embarrassing.
I will keep trying, so far people have been pretty tolerant of my attempts or at least I think they have been. ;-)
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