Destination: Emigration
by Thomas Brock - August 18th, 2008.Filed under: 2008 Presidential Election, Bloggers, BrockNet, Politics, World News.
Recently I’ve joked with Ms. Steinfeld about emigrating if Senator John McCain is elected president in November 2008.
Since she’s eligible for a real-no-kidding-Eye-Talian-passport, her chosen destination is Italy (probably somewhere near Sicily or the Tuscan shore). Mine is France.
It seems that my choice may be a bit better than hers…
Newish Washington blogger Charles Brown (I’m not kidding) posts about some petty restrictions in some Italian cities:
Good to know that law and order is returning to Italy:
Italy’s mayors are enforcing a zero tolerance summer with a string of bizarre [laws]. . . .Among the new edicts are a ban on public kissing, sand castles, noisy sandals, lawn mowers and leaving a towel unattended on the beach to bag a top spot.
Dude: What? The public kissing I could kind of see, same with the unattended towels…But sand castles and noisy sandals? That’s crazy!
August 18th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
LMAO. I don’t think I own a pair of noisy sandals. Al & I aren’t big into PDAs. I haven’t built a sandcastle since they started replacing the sand at Presque Isle State Park with dirt or some kind of dirt/sand combination. The lawnmower one confuses me though. I’m guessing it has to do with noise? We have a reel mower, which is pretty quiet.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Yes, Emma, it was the noise. Specifically, in the afternoons as it may disturb napping Italians.
Reel mower, huh? My family had one those when I was growing up. It was quiet, but as I recall, it couldn’t cut grass worth a hoot as it wasn’t well-maintained.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:03 am
The secret to the reel lawnmower is the length of the grass you’re cutting. There’s a very small window of opportunity for a good cut. If it gets too long, then the mower just bends it over before the blades have a change to get to it and it doesn’t get cut.
Also, it helps to keep the blades sharpened.