In a celebration of Parisian culture and tradition, the city recently revived a 110-year-old tradition: a race for waiters and waitresses through central Paris.
Usain Bolt's sprint world records were never in danger. Then again, even the world's fastest-ever human likely wouldn't have been so quick while balancing a tray with a croissant, a coffee cup and a glass of water through the streets of Paris, and without spilling it everywhere. France's capital resurrected a 110-year-old race for its waiters and waitresses Sunday.
That is where you will find the population's fine flowers,' sang songwriter-poet Georges Brassens, but also 'all the miserable, the down on their luck.' So drum roll, please, for Pauline Van Wymeersch and Samy Lamrous — Paris' newly crowned fastest waitress and waiter and, as such, ambassadors for an essential French profession.
Although all smiles on this occasion, competitors acknowledged that's not always the case when they are rushed off their feet at work. The customer may always be right in other countries, but the waiter or waitress has the final word in France, feeding their reputation for being abrupt, moody and even rude at times.
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