Messed up Grand Prix de Monaco

The subject of this day was to get to Grand Prix in Monaco, which starts today, test drives. The tickets are most affordable, up to 70 euro. So today in the morning a took all my equipment with me, all batteries, free memory card and was getting ready to leave the office during the lunch to spend half day in Monaco. As festival in Cannes is still going on and all towns are filled with tourists, you cannot hope too much to find parking slots in Monaco. The fastest way to get there is of course by train from Antibes, Cannes and so on. At 12.30 or so I was buying the tickets for the train in Antibes railway station, pretty expensive ~10 euro round-trip. However, after I bought, a guard came up with some questions about the train I need. And of course with a answer: today no train to Monaco, it's a strike!
... of course the tickets must be refunded, of course there is a huge queue as it's a lunch time (thanks God they were not on the strike). At 13:00 or so the money were back to the credit card. But the problem with going by a car is that it's about 50km and it's about 20-30min to walk. The French people at that moment became enemies. And ok, maybe they have their reasons for a strike, but comm'on, most of the people in France already have unreal possibilities at work. They have lots of vacations, lots of subsidies, and other stuff. I think that they just don't get it at all. They got used to it, you strike and get what you want, just like Lithuanians got used to do not believe in their government and now most do not really care who will be next ruler of the country, they vote for artists or just skip...
And you know what is the funniest thing about French? From my knowledge about them, I bet they think of the strike something like: "C'est la vie..." cause it's their answer to many questions. Now I could say: "C'est la France" :)

P.S. By the way... it's not only France. The same thing has happened about two weeks ago in Italy.