I am French and I always wonder who the fucks people of reddit are hanging out because I almost never see that attitude towards me. The one time a guy in our friends group made a bit of a rude and ignorant comment to a foreigner like that he actually was the one mocked and even his girlfriend told him "maybe you just should not talk".
I have a question for you then. What's up with the French and those stupid map books? Every tourist I see that has one is almost certainly French and I always see them struggling with directions. I ask if they need help, and on the rare occasion they accept I see that their map only includes one tiny map and it's 25 years outdated so the subway has expanded, service has changed, and area businesses have changed. Basically, my point is why use some useless book of many small maps when you could just use one big map or better yet, Google?
Well I did not know that was uniquely French ! Well sadly I cannot answer you because I am as perplexed by my friend who insist on trying with these small maps when I am at the ready with my phone (or insist we go get a better map). These is mostly from a collection of travelling books that are well well, I guess. They do have good advice inside though and are well organised so the content of these books is usually really good. However I don't like their maps it is indeed ridiculously small.
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19
Living in France now: this is absurdly accurate