A keen eye & a keen I !

Here are a few observations that I made in my first few days :-
1. Paris has infinite cars, and most of them are parked.
2. Parisians are extremely bad drivers, but they are polite drivers. By bad I mean they will speed excessively, and what I think is unnecessarily. By polite, I mean they will stop for a pedestrian to cross the road - if they see you well in advance.
3. Cars here are moderately small, which works in the favour of any urban area.
4. Women here, carry themselves amazingly well. Even a 55 yr. old lady, will carry herself with great ease.
5. Women let their hair down, literally. I have hardly seen any girl / woman / old lady, tie her hair in any manner. If maintaining it is an issue, they just have cropped hair, but no 'bun'ning it, or plaits.
6. That they have great hair, obviously helps, since they have nothing to hide.
7. Paris , and more particularly, Versailles, seems like a family city (unlike the notoriously single NY). Couples are seen moving doing small chores and they are a number of them. Families have 1 or 2 kids, with a prammed infant and an occasional dog thrown in.
8. When a man and a woman, are driving together, empirical observations show that the guy will be in the driver's seat.
9. Ohh! almost forgot :- French women are damn beautiful.
10. French moms are just as beautiful.
11. The chores of parenting are majorly done by the mother - the French equivalent of Soccer Mom. I saw a handful, of ladies accompanying kids to / from school.
12. French are amazing engineers - atleast amazing civil engineers. Eiffel Tower is just one of the examples. The Paris rail system , is so meticulously planned and well executed - that grudging that I was to accept any system betters Bombay Suburban system - it must easily the best mass transit system. Subway trains, RER trains, local bus, Trams are well co-ordinated with each other as well as the vehicular traffic. They have atleast 4 terminals - of the scale of CST, perhaps not in terms of traffic handled - but surely in terms of area. That each of them is exquisitely designed goes without saying.
Various transports run on multiple levels. Viaducts run for considerable stretch along the turns of the Siene.
13. There are items of artistic interest at every turn and crossroad.
14. Versailles (and probably Paris as well) closes very early, making it an uneasy stay for an IITian :P
15. People say 'Bon Jour' and 'Bon Sour', even if there is a probablistic chance that they will see you again.
16. A simple 'Merci' makes them happy, especially if you are a foreigner who doesnt know French.
17. Segolene Royal is cute.
18. and to wrap up - a myth shattered - Eiffel Tower isn't visible from every place high enough in Paris !