Oops! There were two random, unrelated things I was going to mention in my earlier post:
First: a shout out to the family for sending us a Christmas card (and scratch offs!). The envelope was postmarked 12/14/2021, and only took 3.5 weeks to get to us! Might be a new record.
Sadly, despite using my lucky euro, we didn't win anything on the scratch offs this year.
The second random thing was that I happened to witness the Poste italiane driver needing a little assistance today from one of my neighbors, to whom she'd just delivered mail. She was having trouble getting down the street due to a randomly parked car:
It was a tight squeeze, but she made it
The surprising thing is that she didn't just barrel down the street, taking out the passenger-side mirror or otherwise dinging the parked car, which is what usually seems to happen, because Italy.
Which reminds me of yet another random thing: the other day, some poor guy in a Land Rover tried to make the turn onto our street, but the vehicle was simply too big to make said turn, and the driver had to slowly back himself down the way he came. I wish I'd gotten a picture of that. Must have been someone new in town. On the other hand, we've been there, done that, so I do have a little bit of sympathy for him.