I helped a friend clean her closet & now understand France

My lord God!

I have never seen sooo much paper work in my entire life. Major corporations have less then a common every day person in France.

My friend is a normal every day person that works a regular job in a resturant. There is nothing special about her home, car, job, etc.

But from a North American standard the amount of paperwork she has to deal with is unreal.

Attestations for work.
Attestations for home.
Apartment tax papers.
Social Security papers for visiting a doctor.
Tax returns.
Pay papers. (Not stubs-entire forms certifying she was paid -each week!)
Insurance papers for her car.
Attestations that she owns a car.
Photocopied info of her parents & their marital status when she was born.
etc etc etc

Literally boxes of the stuff going back 5 years. All of it is required for one reason or another. And several years mandated by goverment law.

So my husband came up with a new joke based on this finding. (Sorry kind of a spin on an old French slam)

How many Frenchmen does it take to defend France?
A.
It will never be done because they don't want to have to fill out and obtain a "Victory Attestation" later.