Thursday, January 15, 2009

Amendment of Italieeens #2

Impossibility of queing --> this is an amendment of the previous Italieeens as in this case the tendency of outwitting others expresses itself in ignoring your position, putting yourself just beside the person who is trying to maintain her/his place while avoiding eye contact. After a while, when it's almost your turn, you finally look in the eye of the furious other and with a very high dose of "nonchalance" (in Milan, they call it "faccia di tolla" --> tin face) look down to the other and say something like: "Is it your turn or mine?" This can be multiplied by three or four more people, so that the result is not a queue anymore, but a sort of flock in which everybody is confused about her/his position. And at this point the arguments start and the insults... "fly" around.

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