A Funny...

There is a story that we heard that has comforted us time and time again when we've struggled with the language here. One of the older ministers that was here in Italy and learning the language found himself one day on one of the super-packed underground metro cars. Without knowing, he stepped on a woman's foot and she spewed out a long monologue of expletives to voice her discomfort. The minister looked at her and said, in his broken Italian: "Excuse ma'am, could you please repeat that more slowly, please?"