Paris Outlook - Day 3

Now that I was accustomed to the place and surroundings, I started noticing things around me. This included the kind of cars people drive, how parisians dress, how they walk, how they commute and so on. I noticed that every person has a cellphone and is used very widely. Lot of people use public transportation to commute. So this results in lot of people walking. Although I am not staying in downtown Paris, I still see a lot of people walking, biking, rollerblading and jogging on the sidewalk.Another aspect of Parisians that surprises me is their sense of dressing. Most people wear formals to work. When I say formals, it is indeed formal with a blazer and a tie. The women's sense of dressing is very contemporary with latest fashions. I started appreciating their dressing sense and wish that I could do the same. But I can never see myself wearing such formal clothes to work esp after working in the valley for so long.People walk real fast here. But that does not mean that they have a fast life. People come to work at 9.30AM and go home around 6.30PM. But they do have a 2 hour lunches in between and lot of coffee and smoking breaks. They really have a laid back work life.People talk a lot on their cellphones as they walk. I also saw a lot of people walking their dogs.People drive really small cars here. I think its because parking of cars is at a premium here. I am amazed at how people park at such small parking spaces and more surprising is how they get out of that parking space since the cars are parked so close to each other. This reminds me of the BMW parking add I once watched on the internet. Thats the only way to park cars here in Paris.