3. Rashida #2

This was the second apartment shown to us by the same broker who showed us the previous one on Ile St. Louis. I was willing to give her a second chance since I felt I had made it clear how completely inappropriate the first one was. I was wrong. Granted the next one wasn’t a total tear down, but the ceilings were so low, I felt that I would need to bend down going from room to room and we were only two floors up from a hideously busy street. Hated it, although she was very attractive. I named her Rashida because she reminded me of the equally attractive former minister Rashida Dati, who is now actually the mayor of our current arrondisement. Next…