Had a coworker, working in Germany. They went to dinner in France, started speaking English and were told to leave the restaurant.
Man...you ought to try herding a bunch of drunk Sailors across Paris in the middle of the night!
I was the only sober guy in the group, about 6 or 8 of us if I remember right. The sober guy who watches everybody else and hopefully keeps a liberty incident from happening.
Well, after hopping from one sidewalk beer drinking place to another, everybody finally decided we needed to go see the Eifel Tower.
"How do we get there?"
Me: "It's over there, guys."
*points to the Eifel Tower sticking up over the buildings* "Let's just walk that way!"
So there I was, steering the drunken group down one street and over to another, zig-zagging our way through Paris in the general direction of the Eifel Tower.
Then the guys decided they needed more beer as they passed another bar. But the door was locked...because apparently it was a bit more exclusive than the other places. And the door pounding began.
I'm standing there thinking I need to get the guys moving to some place else before the police down on us when the door opens and this guy looks us over.
"WE WANT SOME BEER!" (Great way to endear us with the local establishment, guys, thanks.)
The guy looks at us and says "We do not like your shoes."
(Sneer in a horrible French accent as you read that to get the full effect.)
"YEAH? WELL WE DON'T LIKE YOUR F*CKIN' COUNTRY EITHER, BUT HERE WE ARE! NOW GIVE US SOME BEER!"
I finally managed to get the herd of drunken Sailors moving again, with no repercussions beyond a bad impression.
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HOWEVER...there are a great many places in an area like Paris where there is a dress code and they will not let you in if you don't meet it. If you're dressed American casual with blue jeans, sneakers, and a whatever-shirt, you aren't going to cut it in a lot of "decent" establishments. A collared shirt (preferably button down), casual pants which aren't blue jeans, and shoes that aren't sneakers will get you into. I wanted to go to a cabaret show, just to say I've been to one while in Paris. The only one I could get into was the Lido de Paris where it was PREFERRED to have better than the nice jeans, collared shirt, and sneakers that I had, but not an outright rule.