can i interview you?

after class today, chris was like, "nicki, you wanna walk up that way?" pointing in a direction we've never gone. i was a little tired (i had 3 classes today!) and a little hungry, but i reluctantly agreed. it's a relatively nice day and i didn't have anywhere else to be, so i figured that a walk might be nice.

we wandered over to the champs elysees (which is pretty dang close to school, but we never realized cuz we're directionally challenged). we saw a guy holding a camera interviewing another guy with a microphone...as we get closer, we see the E! on the mic.

chris: "ooo nicki, look, it's E! let's over there"
so we walk through the shot of the camera and stop conveniently in the shot, pretending to look at a map and figure out where we want to go....but really, we're both giggling because the backs of our heads are totally going to be on TV.

as i folded the map up, we noticed that the guy with the camera was walking toward us.
chris: "omg, nicki, i think he's gonna interview us!"
me: "no, he's not."
he walks closer; we both look at each other a little incredulously. the guy came up and asked if we spoke french, and chris said oui. so then he went off on some speech in french (which we didn't understand) and said "britney spears" at the end. god, you should have seen chris's face then. he looked like a little kid who's mom had just told him he could eat all the candy in the world.

the guy realized that we didn't speak french, and goes, "do you want me to speak english?" yessss please. so, in broken english, he asked us if we knew about britney spears and her ordeals, to which chris responded, "I LOVE BRITNEY SPEARS! i know all about it." the guy (man, i should have learned his name) was like, "okay, which one of you wants to be interviewed? duh, i pointed to chris. i dont think i ever would have been forgiven if i had taken the interview.

the guy points the camera at us and asks some general question, like, "what do you think of britney's most recent news?" chris launches into this "i love britney and what the media has done to her is unforgivable and disgusting" speech. hahahah...i just stood and stared from the microphone to a piece of sidewalk to the camera. i think the interviewer was a little overwhelmed with chris's responses. at one point, he asked if we think britney could/will get her kids back...i said that it doesn't seem like she cares enough to fight for them right now, that she just doesn't care about being a mom. chris goes, in that tone of voice that's level but you can tell he's holding back big emotions, "uhm, i'm going to have to disagree."

the guy finished up the interview, chris signed his life away and we were off. these random afternoons in this spectacular city rule.