My adventure with french shampoo or why I should quit messing around and learn French...

Another item I forgot to bring with me is shampoo... Normally this wouldn't be an issue as there is a grocery store in town that carries all the essentials but I've been so busy thus far that there hasn't been an opportunity to get there yet. This morning I ran out of my poor travel pack of some horrible dove something or other so I figured after the gym tonight I'd hit the little store we have at the camp and pick up some shampoo.

So post-gym sweating like a banshee sweating banshees that are sweating I wander in to the store mere moments before the poor fellow is closing up so I quickly scan the meager shampoo selection and snag the least girly looking one they have. I figure being blue and orange, both fairly manly colours, that I'd be OK....

Elseve right? Sounds manly. Antipelliculaire... anti.. it means it's fighting something.. Pelliculaire? That can't possibly mean anything weird right? Anti peculiar maybe? Whatever it says anti on it a bunch and I see actif in there too it must kick some ass at shampooing.. Yea, sure. That'll do. Pay the man and get out, he wants to go home.

So google translate post gym shower tells me the guy at the commissary thinks I have a dandruff problem now. Like a really really bad one. Apparently this stuff lasts for days and destroys itchy scalp and dandruff after JUST one use!

*sigh* Time to learn French....