Black Socks and Sinking

I joined some of my coworkers outside today for a cup of coffee and a quick break from the computer     (the Jet Lag finally decided to kick in today) hoping the fresh air would wake me up a bit. While down there we began having a conversation about my blog and good things to make sure I capture on here- an example being- how some French find it ok to wear black socks with sneakers which then digressed into multiple other conversations including:

The Ten Year Rule
Apparently there is a ten year rule here in France. Everything that happens in the US happens approximately ten years later here. To tie this in with the sock - ankle socks are a new thing here only a few years old to be exact. Which I found just unreal. So once this "rule" was brought up I thought back long and hard and the first thing that came to mind was Ace of Base (so maybe that was more like 15 years ago but I wanted to see if this rule was right on). And to my surprise they started singing one of their songs, in case you were wondering, the song of choice was All That She Wants. This serenade in itself was enough for me to end my day with a smile.

After the sing along we got back on the topic of socks and that no matter what it is really not ok to be rocking block socks with sneakers. No it doesn't matter if the sneakers are black- black socks are just really not a good fashion statement (and I think we are in the fashion capitol here.....). So in order to stick up for their fellow black sock wearing French folk my friends immediately threw the Germans and their sock and sandal wearing antics out on the table. I could go on and on about how wrong wearing socks with sandals is but we digressed again. With the mention of German's a commercial about the German Navy Trainee and improving English skills was brought up.  Take a peek ......

The best part about the video is this kind of misinterpretation actually happens all the time between us at work.  Which is sometimes difficult but most of the time hysterical.

Thinking, Sinking, Ankle Socks, Black Socks, Ace of Base.... we all have so much to learn!!!