London, Paris, Rome--Made Easy by Taylor Hart & Stone Hart

Author:Taylor Hart & Stone Hart [Hart, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ArchStone Ink
Published: 2016-12-02T06:00:00+00:00

6

The French Police

Unknowingly, we’d picked the time of the European Soccer Championship in France to be in Paris. It wasn’t a big deal. Sure, there were crowds. To me, it actually made me feel safer. Crowds of fans wearing their country’s jerseys, anticipating the big game, were no big deal. They weren’t snarky, at least to me.

Plus, everyone pretty much spoke English. Except at the police station.

To get into the police station, we had to go underground. They didn’t speak English. They carried machine guns and I felt … scared.

They wanded us before letting us in and they weren’t delighted to help us at all. Seriously, I kept getting this feeling if we stayed too long, we’d end up getting stuck there. And as you know from this book, I believe God warns me about a lot of things.

We wanted to file a police report for our credit card companies and banks so they knew we had proof. My husband had tried to file the report online the night before, and the “not very good” WiFi kept kicking him off. Plus, the police site was super glitchy.

So we got wanded and went into the police station, and we were put in this small room to fill out the report. I took pictures of my husband filing the report and sent it to my parents so at least someone would know where we were if we got held. Then, I took pictures of the report my husband filed. I did this quickly and covertly, because it felt like they could get mad at any moment and were just looking for a reason to hold us.

Luckily, by the grace of God again, there was a nice man waiting with us who spoke English. He told us he was there because the French police move parked cars around at night to help alleviate congestion due to the games. Usually the police put the license plate on a website so you can find your car later, but his car had been lost in the system. He originally thought his car had been stolen, but after walking around his neighborhood for a few hours he found his car. Because it wasn’t in the system, he had to go to the police station to get it cleared up.

He’d been waiting to speak to someone for an hour before we got there, and he told us there were thirteen people waiting in front of us in different rooms.

At this point I wanted to get the heck out of there. We then tried to talk with the officers behind the desk, but they were of no help. They said that they were busy because of the games and that they didn’t know when we’d be seen. They told us to come back the next day and they’d likely not be as busy.

We left the police station and were going to return the next day. Originally, the plan was for my husband to return the next day and finish

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