Odd experience... I sat down on a park bench on my way to the doctor. An old man and younger woman conversing in French on the next bench over-- I can scrape by in French so I'm half-listening. After a bit they stand up to go and the man says, "hmm, that girl over there looks very sad," and the woman says "shall we console her?"

In fact I am feeling very peaceful and well.

They walk toward me and when they are within an arm's reach, facing me head-on, the woman hisses "my god, but we're in Boston, not France!" and they scuttle away awkwardly.

I'm dying to know how they would have consoled me!