Une Greve!!!

Democracy: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections (Merriam-Webster)

France is a democratic country....sometimes a bit too democratic. A strike is held almost everday and the word 'greve' in an ordinary French conversation is all too common. This week the public transport sector plans to hold a strike on Thursday, and an announcement is made in a tramway station: 'Saxe Prefecture.' There will be no public transport service whatsoever everywhere in France on Thursday... including the TGV trains! MERDE!