Delicious dinner and crazy nutcase

I met Beth this evening for a walk through Paris before going to Snax Café to meet other friends, and we became rather peckish during the walk, so we decided to grab a bite to eat. We chose a nice, very reasonably priced, Chinese restaurant in the Chatelet/Les Halles area. It was the third time I've eaten food prepared by this particular restaurant, and all three times the food was delicious (the first time was take-away). However, the main reason I'm writing this post isn't to comment on the quality of the food, but on another patron of this establishment.

Beth and I were happily eating and discussing plans for the weekend, including who would and wouldn't be attending a dinner event she is organising, when a woman who was seated near us and dining alone, looked over at me and for no apparent reason said, rather venomously, "There's nothing for you in the Bible, mister!" and then while we were processing what had actually just happened, looked at Beth and said, "There might be something in the Bible for you!". We were a bit shocked because nothing we'd said up until that point warranted any input from other diners, especially input of that kind. Beth was quicker at recovering from the shock than I was and immediately asked the woman what she meant and why she felt the need to speak to us at all, but the woman then pretended to have difficulties understanding English, assuming that Beth and I were English-only people, so we switched to French (Beth's French is better than mine). After switching to French and asking her what the hell was going on, the mad cow refused to answer us. Beth and I then changed our topic of conversation to bashing Christianity in every way we could think of, while trying to add the word "hell" to every sentence. Beth asked me if I'd like more water, but apologised (loudly) for not being able to turn it into wine.

We left the nutcase to her meal and went on our way, though we were tempted to drop some insults in her general direction, but decided it wasn't worth the hassle.