A while ago, when learning about the beautiful American Culture, I saw something that seemed wrong. For some reason most of Americans seemed to hate the French.
I myself had a neutral to positive opinion about French. Everybody knows about Paris, French cousine and the Eiffel tower. So learning about the French seemed a good idea.
This was about to change when the Sequoia cones incident happened.
While visiting a famous Sequoia grove I noticed a sign forbidding to pick up the cones – huge cones (presumably a Sequoia cone). Not that I was going to, but the sign made it more clear. Walking around I saw a few giant cones and thought they are really cool. Then it happened: two people (a he and a she) noticed one of these cones and thought it would be cool to take it home. If you don’t know, Americans always follow the posted rules. And when I say always, I mean always, even if it’s a dumb rule like “don’t scratch your chin”. Anyway, I immediately knew that those people where not Americans, so I tried to figure out what they were. To my surprise they were French (the 7 years wasted well spent learning French while in school payed out).
As an educated man, that I am, I assumed that was an isolated thing and French don’t usually pick up big cones. What do you know? It happened again. With another couple this time. And then again. So I started seeing a pattern: French like to take cones home.
There you have it, one of the many reasons Americans hate French! :)