I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do) by Mark Greenside

Author:Mark Greenside
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2008-08-30T16:00:00+00:00

Three days later my money arrives. I know this because Madame P tells me. She knows because the boy at the bank calls her, giving her the job of explaining it to me. So much for confidentiality. That afternoon I go to the bank.

“Bonjour,” I say, putting out my hand to shake, showing I’m a local who knows the rules.

“Bonjour,” the girl says, and gives me a piece of paper to sign, which I do, as usual, not knowing what I’m doing. Then she gives me a new checkbook. I stand there, dumbfounded. I’m supposed to pay the notaire to close the deal, but I don’t know how to write the check, what goes where, where to sign it, date it, write the sum, not that I could write it anyhow. I turn the checkbook around and ask her to write it for me. I feel like a grammar-school kid opening my first bank account. She fills it out and tells me where to sign. I thank her and walk across the street and hand the check to the notaire—and that’s that. I own a house and car in France.

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