“I suppose you were too reactive in criticizing”

well, surely it was somewhat annoying having to explain twice weekly to the same barman at the same bar for three long years that what I wanted was a glass of white wine, not a glass of white wind

the French, well, at least the Parisians never actually leave high school (the lycée) and tend to behave like older students who see it as their duty to correct the younger students’ mistakes, specially when it comes to matters of spelling