In a scene from Les Invincibles, Carlos is asleep in bed with his girlfriend. It’s early morning, and the alarm clock is buzzing.
Both of them keep waiting for the other to shut the alarm clock off, too lazy to move.
The alarm clock is on Carlos’ girlfriend’s side of the bed. But she refuses to turn it off because it’s Carlos who has to get up this morning, not her.
Frustrated by the noise, she grabs the clock on her nightstand and passes it to Carlos so that he can finally turn it off.
She reminds him:
Celui qui se lève met le cadran de son bord…
Whoever’s getting up puts the alarm clock on his side (of the bed)…
le cadran, alarm clock
de son bord, on his/her side
Currently, there are episodes of Les Invincibles available on tou.tv.
[Quote from Les Invincibles, season 1, episode 1, Radio-Canada, Montreal, 14 September 2005.]
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