Given the international headlines in the last few days about the seismologists sentenced to six years in prison and fined $10 million each for failing to predict the earthquake in L’Aquila that tragically killed 308 people, I’ve been pondering what else I could go to Italian prison for not accurately predicting. For that reason, I present to you: Things that are impossible to predict in Italy, besides earthquakes.
- What Bercusconi…will…do…next.
- Whether the post office/store/mechanic/etc. will be open when you need it.
- Whether you will be able to get to work tomorrow.
- Whether the bathroom in whatever establishment you’re in will have toilet paper.
- Whether your scooter, or part of your scooter, will get stolen.
- Whether a puff of air conditioning will make you deathly ill.
- Whether your boyfriend’s mother will accept you.
- Whether the Dollar/Euro exchange rate will be bad or terrible.
- If you’re still learning Italian, whether you just said “discourage” or “pass gas.”
- Whether you’ll get a a 50 euro per month raise this year, or nothing.
- When you’re going to get paid at all.
- Whether you’re going to get a job after 35 years of school.
There were just too many for a top-ten. Feel free to add your ideas in the comments!
also: how long until the next bus passes?
Good one!
to know when the next bus will pass:
http://muovi.roma.it/paline/
but you will not know when it’s actually working.
They’re all great, but my favorite is #6…the dreaded “colpa d’aria.” Lucky for us Americans, we’re immune to it. 🙂
Bravissimo, it’s like we were all born with special air conditioning antibodies that keep us from getting “the fever” after being so exposed. Over the summer I also learned that a fan will give you “the fever” if it is behind you but not if it is in front of you. I think this might be worth of its own post.
This post was entirely predicable, unlike an earthquake.
Those poor serious risk commission guys would’ve been convicted for causing mass panic if they’d said “Yes, a huge and destructive earthquake will happen in 24 hours time”, and it didn’t.
I like number 7 Whether your boyfriend’s mother will accept you. Ask your boyfriend and if he’s wrong, sue him for $10 million providing “inaccurate, incomplete and contradictory” information!
In Italy you will make a fortune in no time!
Remember that the Abruzzo case will go to appeal. Whether the appeal will succeed, is unpredictable!
Alex, as usual: HA HA HA!
Haha, I love n.9 & 11!
*Whether an old lady will push you to get off the bus
*Whether the post office is charging you the same amount for postage as the one downtown did
HA HA HA Y’all are hilarious!
“one of the victims was nine months pregnant when she was killed, so survivors have upped the death toll to 309”
This is frightening, especially after reading recenty that 70% of medical professionals refuse to offer abortions in Italy.
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