The gendarmes come calling

Last week I was just checking my emails and glanced to the right and saw a blue car pull in with two gendarmes. This is interesting I thought as they didn't clap any handcuffs on me , I obviously wasn't their target. One of them speaks good English as he is married to a girl from "up north " he met during the year he spent working with the men in blue near Blackpool ( I think anyway north of Watford )

"I'm looking for Susan the owner that car " ( I noticed one of the giters car had returned without the driver so he had driven it back. Had he been arrested ? )

" Try that gite "

"allo Susan "

" No I'm not Susan " I crinched " Sorry wrong gite try that one over there "

We found Susan just sat down relaxing with a coffee on the patio when she was confronted with two gendarmes with their full kit ,pistols, French truncheon and a few other riot control toys, really necessary in Plestin. The poor woman nearly had a heart attack.

"Don't vorry your usband as a liettle accident "

What had happened was he had just been to the tabac in town and was walking to the boulangerie when a passing lorry slowing down for the traffic lights rear door opened and whacked him on the shoulder leaving him lying on the pavement. Fortunately for him a nurse was in the following car so she called all the services and he was taken to Urgence at L Lannion where he was treated for the bruising ( nothing broken )

I blame myself I shouldn't have told him the night before about the attractive nurses in A and E!