In Paris, the customer is not always right

Feb 8, 2010 English 1st Paragraph

In Paris, the customer is not always right[…] The fact is Parisians employed in any service industry simply do not buy into the Anglo Saxon maxim, “He who pays the piper calls the tune.” The revolution of 1789 has burned the notion of equality deep into the French psyche and a proud Parisian finds it abhorrently degrading to act subserviently…

Read this on the BBC.

  • don’t buy into: don’t (completely) believe
  • finds it abhorrently degrading: thinks it is vey bad and it makes you feel worthless

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