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| Place des Terreaux, Lyon, France |
This is a fact : french people are always unhappy for everything ! Weather, politics, their job, their family, their friends, their schedule... and this is a non exhaustive list.
Anyway, I tried to remember some examples.
At the moment, in Lyon, the weather is cold but there is no snow. So I can hear "Oh noooo... It's soooo coooold ! My face is frozen !" but also "I want snow so badly !!!"
When it is snowing, it's more like "Here we go... Too much snow, the roads in the region are blocked. I can't go to work !"
During summer, it's the contrary : "OMG ! It's sooooo hoooot, I feel like I'm smelting... I want ice !"
During spring you can hear people say "Awesome... I'm allergic to pollen..." and during autumn "Fuck the weather, too much rain everywhere !"
And this example is only for weather... The same is possible for everything you can imagine !
Indeed, the best place to observe this kind of behaviour is, with no doubt, school or university. Just think about a normal timetable for a normal class... You can have groups of students with different timetables. And if you observe each group, you can see exactly the same behaviour : "Our schedule is the worst... Look at the other's... The secretariat is really annoying !" in the first group ; "Look at that ! We have all the courses in the morning ! Why only us ?!" in the second one.
And then, it's complicated for a poor secretary to satisfy everybody.
But I'm french and I think I'm the queen of unhappiness...
