heh, heh, heh. It's as well didn't ask them for "A jump" in French. It has colloquial connotations that might have had interesting consequences for you.scarecrow wrote:I boiled the battery dry on my old Meteor using one of those travel kettles that plug into the ciggy lighter (I only like fresh coffee from a cafetiere). I was in the middle of a French nowhere, in the middle of the night, with the front windows down. The Gendarmarie came and shone a torch at me a couple of times - then drove off without a word.
Having said that, many rural cops in France are more than happy to give a stranded motorist a jump-start if asked nicely. When I used to live there, I found the local gendermes a damned sight more helpful than their Brit counterparts.
