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Originally Posted by Truckman
My last (and only) visit was over 50 years ago...It is a beautiful city with a lot of history, some good, some bad, but all of great interest...I'd love to return, but my chances are somewhere between zilch and nothing...
Further south in Naples I encountered and somehow survived the worst drivers I've ever seen on public roads...I would hope they've improved a bit since then...North of Naples they were all tolerable...  ...Ben |
Ben,
the surviving television reality should be filmed in Naples traffic, not in Canada or Alaska against bears.
But I have to tell you the truth, in Naples I feel very comfortable driving in traffic, because probably those born here in central southern Italy have DNA with a shape that is particularly well suited to these situations... Some say that Rome is worse, but I've lived here for 65 years and driven for 47 years for me is as a two steps in the park.
Well,
in 1996 I was in Dallas for the Shot Show, and outside the building where the event was taking place I saw a couple around 65/70 years old, he was driving a family car that must have been 7 or 8 meters long, he had to park the car in an enormous space but it was between two cars and he really didn't know what to do...
Here the cars are usually 4 meters long and you have to park in places 4 meters and 5 centimeters long, you spend 5 minutes maneuvering but in the end you stick the car in. Necessity makes virtue
Everyone develops the qualities that are necessary for them to live,
if I met some cattle also without the bull I would feel lost and scared, instead the old couple in the story would have governed them and taken them to safety in the corral without batting an eye.
...Ben
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