What are you, French?! come on, someone had to say it; you know you were all thinking it!

Seriously, CE, you keep bringing this up. It can mean nothing or everything. It's a T's choice - perhaps decided with the client? - how loose or tight the boundaries will be. I NEVER gave previous T's any gifts at all. One pdoc - a post-surgery kind-of gag gift. Current T - I'm like a cat daily depositing prey on the doorstep - i.e., it definitely means more to ME than it does to him!

P.s. BTW, I am an avowed francophile, I studied french for 3 years in high school, a couple of odd semesters post grad, T & I often speak french in session, I have a poster of la tour eiffel in my apartment, my apartment building even calls the first floor the ground floor, so - not a french hater.