It seems that injury is to be the theme of the week this week.
Today's injury took place in the residence's laundry room as I was putting my clothes into a washing machine while another boy was transferring his clothes from a washing machine to a dryer beside me. Some time between my kneeling to better reach the washing machine's small opening and his opening of the dryer door, it swung over and hit the closed door of the dyer above my washing machine - neither one of us must have noticed it, or if we did, we pretended not to and kept about our respective tasks. We both finished at the same time and as I was going to stand, he was going to close the dryer door and - in typical Cole fashion - my head and the door met with a slight thud.
To his credit the boy did offer me a very sincere "J'suis désolé" to which I responded "Pas de problème." Normally it has been my experience that when the French do something like this and see that the other person is completely find they just give a look that says "Well, your head shouldn't have been there" or just walk off without even a look, so the apology was refreshing.
And besides, the hit on the head offers me the perfect excuse to forgive myself for forgetting to add one of my socks in with the rest of the clothes - surely it was the hit and not simply overlooking it in the folds of my laundry bag...
Today's injury took place in the residence's laundry room as I was putting my clothes into a washing machine while another boy was transferring his clothes from a washing machine to a dryer beside me. Some time between my kneeling to better reach the washing machine's small opening and his opening of the dryer door, it swung over and hit the closed door of the dyer above my washing machine - neither one of us must have noticed it, or if we did, we pretended not to and kept about our respective tasks. We both finished at the same time and as I was going to stand, he was going to close the dryer door and - in typical Cole fashion - my head and the door met with a slight thud.
To his credit the boy did offer me a very sincere "J'suis désolé" to which I responded "Pas de problème." Normally it has been my experience that when the French do something like this and see that the other person is completely find they just give a look that says "Well, your head shouldn't have been there" or just walk off without even a look, so the apology was refreshing.
And besides, the hit on the head offers me the perfect excuse to forgive myself for forgetting to add one of my socks in with the rest of the clothes - surely it was the hit and not simply overlooking it in the folds of my laundry bag...
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