Desperate for an iced coffee in Paris I find a Starbucks. Cashier asks for my name in French and I repeat, “Heather,” four times to a confused stare. A few minutes later my drink comes up and the barista yells, “Ms. Smith!”
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It's a sad state of the efficiencies of the French bureaucracy that they allowed you in in the first place. Your name, to the French ear, sounds like "nothing." So they are in the right. 🇫🇷
Had a companion on my mission named Heather and for a good time we’d try to get the French to say her name. Hilarity.
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If it makes you feel better, over the phone I get mistaken for a female pretty often and when I say my name is “Tyler” they insist on repeating “Heather”... 🤦🏻♂️ Hehe!
I live in China and they often resort to writing “sir” or “madam” on the cups of non-Chinese customers. 😆
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