LIFE UNLEASHED

The word for trouble in Italain is spelled L-I-S-A!

Upon entering a fast food restaurant I was immediately told:

“Madame. In Line please”. (All I was trying to do was read the menu before deciding where to eat)

You’d think I would learn but alas, in a moment of rebellious foolhardiness I approached a fruit stand and picked up a Pink Lady (apple) to buy:”

“No touch-a the fruit!”

The culmination of my troublemaker status came while we were picnicking in a park in the town of Frascat (near Rome)i. Our ignorance of the Italian language prevented us from reading the “Keep of the Grass” sign. Along waddled an old lady who started up in a pitch close to that of an ambulance siren. Now, as I mentioned we do not speak Italian but this is what we infer that she said

“Ma Ma Mia! Why you walk on the grass? This-a lawn, it’s-a been in ma family for sixteen generations. Why? Why you bend-a the blades? Why you hav-a to sit on it?!?! We post-a da sign. Still you bend-a the blades. Six-a-teen generations! Why? Wwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyy?”

So as you can see, L-I-S-A clearly spells trouble in Italy.

Note: We know this post is utterly offensive  (but we couldn’t resist) and for that we apologize wholeheartedly to our many Italian friends and in fact to the whole country of Italy. The Italian people have been wonderful hosts and always ready with a smile. Please take this with humou as at no point was anyone particularly mean to me.  A bit of scolding is nothing 2 or 3 gelati won’t fix J