I finally got my motorcycle license

[Dead Winter]

I feel raped.

The Italian DMV are a bunch of dickholes, taking their frustration out on others and making everyone's lives miserable. Bah, at least I passed.

I still feel raped, though.

 

[azal]

riding horses made of steel...

 

[Dead Winter]

She guards it for me.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

Chris, you live in Italy and you just NOW got a motorcycle driving license????

what's wrong with you?

 

[Dead Winter]

I know, right? I'm a little late!

I wanted to get it while I was in the military, but I woulda had to go BACK to the US, pass the exam there, then come BACK here, take ANOTHER course on base, then blah blah blah, fuck it.

I waited till I got out and had a job and could afford a bike.

Aside from being smaller, the roads here are really, really slick, even when dry. That's another thing I miss about the US. However, most people here are watching out for you, so there really aren't that many accidents at all.

If you can drive a bike safely here, you can drive it anywhere.

 

[Dead Winter]

But I still can't stand all the bicyclists. I just wanna open my door and take out all the bicyclists training for the big tours and taking up the entire road.

 

[doc_backmask]

Welcome to the club...

 

[Malergion]

Your cat looks stuffed. There's also something wrong with a motorcycle next to a picket fence! Find some fucking graffiti for Chrissakes.

 

[Dead Winter]

That looks like an 1100 or so...Honda? Mine's just a wee 750, but it's enough to haul me and Anna around. It was my first bike, and it was practically new at a criminally cheap price...500 miles on it for 4 grande.

If I have the money, I want a Triumph after this one.

 

[Dead Winter]

Your cat looks stuffed. There's also something wrong with a motorcycle next to a picket fence! Find some fucking graffiti for Chrissakes.

Cat's not stuffed...Anna just has a gift with photography.

 

[Malergion]

What do you do, anyway?

 

[Dead Winter]

Teach English to Italians...the easiest job in the entire world. I'm practically stealing my company's money.

Italians love to talk, and they just want to practice speaking English, so I find something that piques their interest and they take it and run with it. Most of the time, that is. Sometimes I have to pull it out of them.

I always love watching movies with them...that's the best part of the job. The only problem is, if you don't have classes, you don't make money. Fortunately, classes are starting again and I'll have a full schedule by the end of the month.

 

[Malergion]

I probably couldn't speak Italian if my life depended on it.

 

[Dead Winter]

I probably couldn't speak Italian if my life depended on it.

Of course you can, "il mio negro Americano!"

 

[Malergion]

The way standard Italian uses articles is fucking irritating. I was using a machine translator.

 

[Dead Winter]

That machine translator was pretty good, dude. Aside from maybe one article, your posts were pretty much spot-on. So much so, that I thought you really spoke intermediate Italian.

Don't sweat it, though. Many Italians don't speak Italian...they speak their own dialect. Italians from Rome and Italians here sometimes can't understand each other.

 

[Malergion]

I've dealt with braindead machine translators before, so I phrased my queries carefully. The translator seems fine with Romance languages, but absolutely butchers English.

I want to read certain books in the original Italian, so I probably will learn it eventually, though.

 

[ledmag]

Have you fucked anna on it yet? You should have gotten a harley, at least anna could cream from the vibrations....

I like your cat BTW. But your bike is in the Shadows compared to a harley.

 

[ledmag]

your place needs a paint job dude....its chipping, termites and weather R gonna get ya..you shoulda got the old paint roller out and spent some cash on home improvement before you dropped your nickle on a honda...

 

[Dead Winter]

Italian is actually not that difficult to learn...I'd say easier than Spanish and much easier than French. Learning the rules is the biggest part, but that's with all romance languages. Yes, Italian has FOURTEEN (14!!) tenses, but I don't know one single Italian who knows them. In fact, Italians in the north don't even use past simple; only in the south do they use it. Italians here use past participle, present, and future tense.

It's strange because if you want to say, "I went to the bar" in Italian in the north, you have to say "Io sono andato al bar." If you are in the south, you say, "Andai al bar". I think...I've never used simple past in Italian. So in effect, everyone from the north says "I have done, I have gone, I have blah blah blah" instead of "I did, I went, I blah blah blah".

I know. Weird.