bienvenue a new york!
today, the cnn-like station france 24 is running a story, continuously, on new york. my interest is piqued, is yours? according to this venerable news source, midtown manhattan vendors have begun accepting a new hard currency - euros! soon they'll be bringing us levi's and chewing gum!
today, the cnn-like station france 24 is running a story, continuously, on new york. my interest is piqued, is yours? according to this venerable news source, midtown manhattan vendors have begun accepting a new hard currency - euros! soon they'll be bringing us levi's and chewing gum!
oh, remember the days (sickening) of freedom fries? of the vilification of the french? of dominique de villepin's smeared reputation at the repudiation of colin powell's (faux) assertions of weapons of mass destruction?
looks like they were right after all. and now that our dollar has plummeted against most major currencies, we're on the short end of the stick. with the euro now riding where the pound sterling used to hang out, it's good business to make it easy on the only people who can still afford to shop here - the europeans!
don't get me wrong - love 'em! but i'm having a serious pang of jealously as i seem the cavalierly picking up all our goods at such paltry sums. so lucky ... they get to live in paris, AND enjoy all that new york has to offer (lots!).
seems like just yesterday (2000) that we were jetting off to france for fanciful and cheap weekends ... when it cost 85 cents to buy a single euro, not $1.50-ish like it is now. oh, the pain! oh, the horror! now those de la chance continentals swoop in for le weekend and shop 'til they drop ...
mes amis, enjoy our fair city - please leave something on the shelves for us!
looks like they were right after all. and now that our dollar has plummeted against most major currencies, we're on the short end of the stick. with the euro now riding where the pound sterling used to hang out, it's good business to make it easy on the only people who can still afford to shop here - the europeans!
don't get me wrong - love 'em! but i'm having a serious pang of jealously as i seem the cavalierly picking up all our goods at such paltry sums. so lucky ... they get to live in paris, AND enjoy all that new york has to offer (lots!).
seems like just yesterday (2000) that we were jetting off to france for fanciful and cheap weekends ... when it cost 85 cents to buy a single euro, not $1.50-ish like it is now. oh, the pain! oh, the horror! now those de la chance continentals swoop in for le weekend and shop 'til they drop ...
mes amis, enjoy our fair city - please leave something on the shelves for us!
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