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And for me after being on the road for a month, outdoors twenty-four hours a day, sleeping on the terrain, I didn't mind sleeping in a bed and taking hot baths. I more or less got the feeling that she was half showing-off all their middle class appliances since I was American. She had a new refrigerator, stove, clothes-washer, television and various furnishings in a modern apartment. She seemed proud of them and indicated such. I got to watch some TV which I hadn't seen any in a year and a half.
I began to form the dichotomy that there was two kinds of Europeans, the middle class who were pro-American and the lower classes who were anti-American. These pro types were appreciative of the American military of World War Two taking-on the Nazis. They were of emulating Americans in a material sense with middle class accumulation. The anti seemed to feel disadvantaged, and saw America as an oppressor, and its values as rich, while they were poor. They were more nationalistic and didn't like being less-best.
I ate meals with this couple and he went to work in the day time. He must have had an office job, although I vaguely had inklings that he may have worked for his father, in this a medium size town. She and I mostly spent the days in the apartment, but it was funny he kept popping in all day-long at odd hours. We came to the conclusion that he was jealous and he kept checking up on her to make sure there was no hanky panky going on. He was a sweet guy and it was sort of adolescent. One thing I noticed in France and all of Europe for that matter, was the adolescence of the men.
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