No one saw it coming

My parents were in France a couple of weeks ago. In this video we are having dinner at my 20-year-old cousin Louise’s apartment in Le Mans.  My uncle (yellow sweater) is telling a story about some traveling boy scouts who recently camped on their farm property.  I began filming because I thought it would be a cute story, and it could have been.  But you’ll see, it sort of gets derailed.  What happens is that my mom says something that makes me laugh.  Maybe it was fashion week exhaustion.  Maybe it was the fact that I had a stressful experience at the train station hours earlier.  Maybe it reminded me of all the times I've been the out-of-the-loop foreigner.  Maybe it's the story itself (French boy scouts invading your yard!).  Maybe it's the way my mom and aunt catch my laughter and begin laughing, in shock, at the tears spilling from my eyes.

I wish you could have seen my face.  Actually I don't.  It probably looked all crumpled and pink. 

Scouts
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2 more things:

-I love how my Dad (grey sweater) is unphased by my meltdown.  He takes the opportunity (No one is talking!  Finally!) to begin reminiscing.  “We were about 14…”

-If you listen closely, you will hear that my Mom calls my Dad dan-YELL not DAN-yull, because that is how the name is pronounced in French, and that is how she has always said it. To an American ear, it sounds like she is saying “Danielle.” Meanwhile, my Dad’s answering machine at work says, “Hello, you’ve reached DAN-yull Fourmont."  He gets away with his American drag until one of his family members calls, asking if "Danielle" is there. 

Comments

[Elizabeth]

Now you've got ME laughing--- and boy howdy, do you look like your beautiful mother!!!

bisous--

[Claire]

Well hello Elizabeth up there! - I was going to say the same thing about you and your mother Elisabeth..and your giggles are so sweet!

[cortney]

That video made me miss you and your family so much! Remember that time we went to that haunted house on Church Street in Orlando and your mom got so nervous she couldn't stop laughing! I am sorry we never got to meet up when you were home over Christmas. Miss you!

[Coquette]

Elizabeth, Claire, xxxxx

Cortney, wow, I had forgotten that totally! I was sorry I missed you too, especially since I saw your parents and Tom and Dalyn. And I miss you.

[Style and the City - Paris]

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i am glad to tell you that after 201 street style photo romances in Paris, i've been proposed to create a press magazine about street styles from the world.
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[DiaryofWhy]

Any story about French Boy Scouts makes me crack up too. Probably because in French it sounds like "scoot." I remember my French host mother was telling me a story about les scoots! les scoots! And I was all, quoi? Les scoots? That made me giggly. Also the time she was going on and on about le ski de phoque, in front of a bunch of my American friends. That was also a time when the giggling built into uncontrollable, snorting laughter, and no one wanted to explain to her why it was so funny. I miss France!

[éMA]

a very funny video ;-)we should shoot diners more often in our daily life ...

[Kira]

Hello,

your blog is so cool, you are in my links of the day!

a kiss and a hug,

kira

[Juliet]

Well :D at least you had a laugh.

juliet xxx

[kim]

your mom speaks french????? or can understand it?:) and they still didn't talk to you when you were little in french??

[Coquette]

Diary of Why, YES, The word "Scoot" sets us off too. I just didn't want to explain that in the post, but my sisters and I once went to a wedding with a ton of "scoot" attendees. (The groom was a scout leader.) We could not. stop. laughing.

Kira, thanks!

Kim, Yes! Terribly unfair of them. I am always threatening to call child services. Haha, I jest. (But not really.)