Me and Olivier Giraud doing the night club lips

On Wednesday night, twenty or so CEA ticket winners attended Olivier Giraud's one man show How to Become a Parisian in One Hour. Throughout the spectacle, Olivier Giraud compared Parisians and the American stereotype. After twenty minutes, I was getting a little tired of the same dumb, loud American cliché. Seriously, there's more than one stereotypical American. Perhaps this is how Parisians feel about the American Frenchman; beret, baguette, bicycle, romantic.
The next day, I went to a café prepared to act like a proper Parisian. I knew what I wanted before I sat down and when the waitress came up I rattled it off confidently and without hesitation. However, she was so uncommonly nice, I couldn't maintain the no smile, shrug your shoulders, it's not my problem mentality that Olivier Giraud insisted on during the night before.
I'll need more than one hour to learn how to become the Parisian he described…then again, I dont want to become the Parisian he described.