In the winter issue of Urbania (#32), people were asked who they thought would make the ideal lesbian couple. (This issue was devoted to the theme of lesbians, which explains the question.)
Some people matched singers together, others matched actors…
One woman answered the question by saying that she’s not going to start matching others when she’s got enough trouble matching herself:
Je commencerai pas à matcher les autres alors que j’ai déjà assez de misère à me matcher moi-même!
Misère in this quote doesn’t mean misery. (Well, literally it does.) It just means difficulty. Avoir de la misère à faire quelque chose means to have trouble doing something.
If you hear a person talking about having misery, it doesn’t mean that she’s depressed necessarily. 🙂
[The quote above appeared in the Vox Pop section of the magazine Urbania, by Joanie Guérin, hiver 2012, numéro 32, Montréal, p. 6.]
