tourist woman #1(in english): Oohh...this is where Jesus DIED!
tourist woman #2: really? I would have thought they’d put a church up there.
-- Rome, Capitolino Hill. Overheard by i know where jesus really died (big thanks for the submission)
the girl: good evening!
the old man: what, good evening? It isn't afternoon yet.
girl: I know, it's for the dark hall--
old man: you're not that right, right?
girl: why, I just--
old man: You should have your prostate checked.
girl: I don't have a prostate.
old man: I can lend you mine.
-- my condo's entrance hall, Milan
Old Lady #1: He masters me just like my son. "Bring me the water!", "do this and that!", never a bit of gentleness.
Old Lady #2: What a man!
Old Lady #3: A force of nature!
Old Lady #1: Oh, He's wonderful.
-- from across the tables, at the Ristorante "da Guido", Ferrara.
Guy #1: I call you then. Because there's a girl with a dog for the apartment.
Guy #2: Really, with a dog?
Guy #1: Yes, she got a job though, she teaches children to crap.
-- "...insegna ai bambini a cagare": overheard in via delle stallacce, Urbino, few days ago. Urbino is the city where everyone who is not a student earns his living by renting apartments to students.
Southern young girl on the 91 trolley bus, speaking on the phone: "...this city scares me. I was never scared by a city like this before. It was easier when I was in Paris, I mean, go figure. Maybe it is the season. ...No, you know, the people, the lousy places. I get out of the house in the morning and I feel already totally crushed, all by myself."
By this moment everybody at reach of her voice is already looking at her gravely. She seems to furtively realize it.
"All right, I am going to hang up now. I'll tell you later. If I survive."
Customer #1: I got asked to ask you whenever the new Ammanniti's book comes out.
Bookseller: You want to know when the new Ammaniti's book is out?
Customer #2 (unrelated to the first one, passing by the counter): So that we can hide at home that day.
Teen girl #1: So they actually gave us the key.
Teen girl #2: Really?
Teen girl #1: I told you we had the keys for the oratorio1
Teen girl #2: Who were you?
Teen girl #1: Just me, Gala, Jessica, Davide e Pozzi.
Teen girl #2: Why did they gave you the keys?
Teen girl #1: Because we had to see a movie.
Teen girl #2: What movie?
Teen girl #1: We saw "the Hall", an horror movie, and "the Other Half of Love", about two lesbians (inhales deeply from the cigarette).
1. Oratorio: the traditional Italian catholic parish youth club next to the church and managed by the local priest.
