Hoarding in France, as reported to me by a German colleague experiencing German hoarding.
I had a conference call with a German colleague this morning - a friend who I like very much. A few weeks ago he asked me how things were in the US and told me that people were hoarding toilet paper. I responded by saying - which was true then - that I'd not seen or heard of that here.
Here we are today.
We had a conference call this morning and after we completed business the conversation turned to toilet paper, the first time in my professional life where this was a topic of personal interaction.
We laughed about it, and then he asked me why we in the US and in Germany couldn't be more like the French.
The French, he reported, are hoarding red wine and condoms.
Every time I've been to France, and I used to go there quite a bit, I've noticed that the French know how to live.
