So, I've been wondering about whether or not to post this funny story as this is a PG-rated blog, but well, I decided to roll back the details to get it down for my own posterity because it's just so.....Italian. Readers of the blog will remember that a few students and I go and help restore wood once a week and have these two great teachers, Roberto and Alessandro. So, this past Thursday, three of us and I are de-varnishing a bookcase and Alessandro shows up, late of course, he's Italian, and promptly starts lamenting about how this woman he is interested in won't go to bed with him even though he's married and she has a boyfriend. He couches it with the fact that "you want to taste different pasta...you can't always eat the same pasta."
Cut to the next scene where we are hanging out at my place and another student who knows all of us stops by and we ask her opinion on the matter. Alessandro obliges and she offers a suggestion that involves the number 3. The lightbulb goes on in his head, it's a revelation to him. We're all rolling on the floor. We ask why not get a boyfriend for his wife? He replies, "because a woman needs to focus on keeping the house and kitchen...have you ever tasted burned food?" Sometimes I'm not sure if Alessandro is playing up the part, but he talks the same way all the time and this comment just rolled off his tongue.
Alessandro then invites us over to his house but the discussion on how to get there takes 20 minutes because we've been warned by Roberto NOT to get in a car with Alessandro because of his poor driving record. His home, was a mere 10 minute walk away but in the end we piled into his car where we promptly learned he didn't have a drivers license but purchased one for 500 Euro.
We get a tour of his house, meet his two dogs and are chilling before dinner when he says he wants us to meet the woman of his desires. So back in the car we go and we're on the Corso looking for the shop where she works. Closed, but there's another woman, of Argentine descent who he also is interested in and so we find her and just hang out while he chats her up. No dice.
We then head to his friends travel shop and just walk in and hang out on the couches. It was surreal as the owner was talking with a customer. Lastly, we finally head to dinner.......
Ok, so it may not have come across as funny as it was. It was like my own mini-version of "The Hangover." So, if you made it this far, I'll be offline for 12 days as I'm headed to Sicily and Tunisia with the school. Honestly....it's part of the job.
Cut to the next scene where we are hanging out at my place and another student who knows all of us stops by and we ask her opinion on the matter. Alessandro obliges and she offers a suggestion that involves the number 3. The lightbulb goes on in his head, it's a revelation to him. We're all rolling on the floor. We ask why not get a boyfriend for his wife? He replies, "because a woman needs to focus on keeping the house and kitchen...have you ever tasted burned food?" Sometimes I'm not sure if Alessandro is playing up the part, but he talks the same way all the time and this comment just rolled off his tongue.
Alessandro then invites us over to his house but the discussion on how to get there takes 20 minutes because we've been warned by Roberto NOT to get in a car with Alessandro because of his poor driving record. His home, was a mere 10 minute walk away but in the end we piled into his car where we promptly learned he didn't have a drivers license but purchased one for 500 Euro.
We get a tour of his house, meet his two dogs and are chilling before dinner when he says he wants us to meet the woman of his desires. So back in the car we go and we're on the Corso looking for the shop where she works. Closed, but there's another woman, of Argentine descent who he also is interested in and so we find her and just hang out while he chats her up. No dice.
We then head to his friends travel shop and just walk in and hang out on the couches. It was surreal as the owner was talking with a customer. Lastly, we finally head to dinner.......
Ok, so it may not have come across as funny as it was. It was like my own mini-version of "The Hangover." So, if you made it this far, I'll be offline for 12 days as I'm headed to Sicily and Tunisia with the school. Honestly....it's part of the job.
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