French word of the Week: Se Shooter

As we discover Nice and learn the French language, we thought it would be fun to include words that we look up to understand our new environment.

The word of this week is se shooter, which turns out to be a reflexive verb and means to shoot-up...as in heroin junkies hanging out on our doorstep at 8 in the morning. The mentioned clochard was just a sad wailing man, who spent half of the night bemoaning something in incoherent French, on our staircase.



But it was a cold, rainy night, and they typically prefer to hang out under the arches overlooking the port rather than in our dark staircase.



All in all, our next door neighbor, a taciturn transvestite-prostitute with an abusive live-in pimp is starting to look better and better.