Christmas tips
It wasn't that easy to tip the binmen in Britain at Christmastime. You either had to lie in wait for them and dash out to catch them as they passed, or sellotape an envelope to your bin bags and hope they looked before flinging the bags in the trash-bag-gobble-wagon. They used to come really early in the morning in the dark, so neither tactic was very good really.
Here it's easy! A really big bin man comes round to sell you a calendar. And a really big fireman too.
The fireman's calendar has pictures of firemen (in France known as sappers and pumpers - "C'est les pompiers" he said) rescuing people from burning buildings, driving their fire-engines through crowded streets at high speed and using high-tech resuscitation devices on unconscious victims.
The bin men's calendar has pictures of fluffy kittens and of tiny children riding huge horses.
Here it's easy! A really big bin man comes round to sell you a calendar. And a really big fireman too.
The fireman's calendar has pictures of firemen (in France known as sappers and pumpers - "C'est les pompiers" he said) rescuing people from burning buildings, driving their fire-engines through crowded streets at high speed and using high-tech resuscitation devices on unconscious victims.
The bin men's calendar has pictures of fluffy kittens and of tiny children riding huge horses.
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