The tradition in France is not only to play jokes on your friends, family, teachers, and colleagues, but to try and tape a paper fish onto the back of someone without them noticing!
As soon as our house was awake, the fish-taping began. First on the coat and shirt of Fred, their dad, and then of course, onto me. I may or may not have noticed as Malo and Alex each took turns "sneaking" fish onto me. While I walked them to school, the garbage man on the road stopped to warn me of the fish on my back and then a trail of giggles and snickers followed me the rest of the way home while the entire French community laughed at my pretended misfortune.
The funniest part was that not a single person I passed on the way to school, in the school, and on the way home from school, had a fish on their backs. While my house may have been the only ones to remember or the only ones keeping the French tradition alive, I didn't mind pretending for the kids' sake. It was fun!
And Fred was a good sport, too. He reapplied the fish onto his back before walking into the house that night so Alex, Malo, and Julie got a big kick out of it. Ah, the French and their weird traditions!
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