Remember that "drama" thing I mentioned in my blog yesterday?  We'll here are some doozies. 

First, a mystery!  An old, odd guy in our condo complex makes honey and has a dozen or so hives along the side of an orchard up the road.  He stores it in barrels in his garage.  All the neighbors woke up this morning to signs taped on the glass doors to our buildings accusing one of us of having stolen his honey and leaving a sticky mess behind!  (Last year he accused someone of breaking in and making off with a weed whacker.)  It's all the gossip over the garden hedges today.  We are now on the look-out for someone with sticky fingers!  Ha ha?
 
In the news we just heard this one.  Some crooks in Naples have been arrested, after a long investigation, for emptying out rarely visited tombs in a popular cemetery and then reselling them.  It was discovered when a family, who had moved to the US and was back visiting relatives, dropped by the family tomb to find someone else in Grandma's spot. (or plot)  No one knows where Grandma is now residing.

Gp went into the city today, Saturday, to do some errands and came back without having completed any as everywhere he went, businesses were closed.  On a Saturday.  With the Pope and the Shroud and hundreds of thousands of tourists in town.  We are talking about shops here people!  Business sense zero.  Give Italians the choice between money and free time and they'll take the free time any day.  5 cents in their pockets and they'll put it towards their holidays.  There is a huge lack of work ethic which is the basis of so many problems here.  But on the other hand, they are having yet another "communal pizza party" in the garden in front of the condos.  The children squealing and yelling, the loud talking and laughing, will go on til all hours of the night.  Most of the neighbors are there with the probable exception of Mr Schiaccavillani, the victim of the honey heist.

xxoo me