Two more things about the grève...

...and then I promise to try hard to stop.

One of the women at work said there were people riding the metro BETWEEN the cars yesterday-- meaning they grabbed onto the wires and small footholds and just "prepared themselves to be all James Bond and shit," as she put it in French. Apparently, the conductors of the train were less amused: they stopped at the next station and sternly announced that train riders were only permitted inside the trains.

Then this morning, after a seriously hazardous ride to Etoile, I noticed cops regulating the number of people on the platform. The upside? You no longer have hundreds of people rushing forward, trying to get on a train with 5 spots open. The downside? Now I have to wait in line to wait in line to board a train.