We spent a wonderful half hour sitting outside a cafe in a residential side street in Nice. A workman had double parked, blocking in two cars. The driver of the first car wanted to get out and blared the horn a number of times to attract the attention of the errant white van man. After 5 minutes she came across to the cafe and started asking customers if they saw where the driver went. One suggested the Pharmacy so the woman went down the street to check. By this time the second blocked car driver had arrived and also wanted to get out. More tooting, more questions, more shrugging, more foot tapping and extravagant hand gesturing. We were now a good 15 minutes into the drama.
Eventually the white van man turned up. No shame, no apology. He just got in and drove the van a bit further down the road, parking it on a corner on top of a pedestrian crossing. The drivers of the two now unblocked cars didn't remonstrate with him but just got in and drove off. It seemed that this was a normal inconvenience for residents who accept double parking as an every day hazard. Still it made for some good, free, street theatre for us.
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