Yesterday was our final mission into the wonderful world of spending fabricas ‘physical computing department budget’. And what a wonderful day it was! We spend EURO 40.00 on boxes for all the fantastic components and hardware that we’d bought over the last few weeks. The funnest day was on Tuesday. We spent EURO 450.00 on powertools! (and tools that require elbow greece instead of voltage!) It was so cooool. Spending money on drills and jigsaws and a table vice, and drill bits and screw drivers and rasps and files and wood and nails and screws and and and glue and duct tape (my sweet sweet duct tape) etc. It a day of macho tool weilding. (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA… oi)
One of the memorable moments was in my favorite store: “Botter”. They sell all the pro hardware. (You know, the kind of drills you just don’t see in the laymen hardware stores) Its obviously a family run business… The first time we went there, the man at the counter introduced us to his english speaking figlio (son), Francesco. He was fantastic to chat to. This time though, he wasn’t in! So we were forced to chat to another son who had VERY little english. He was allowing us behind the counter and showing us all the goodies that people are OBVIOUSLY not intended to see (like BOXES and TOOLS!). The result? MOMMA came out of the office and decided to start dealing with us directly. If you thought the son couldn’t speak english – well then the mother was a mute (with a metaphorical baseball bat). It took us about 10 minutes to totally eradicate the momentum we’d achieved with the son – and a further 30 minutes to generate the last few items on the list.
When it was all over though, she gave us the satisfied smile of a momma who just single handedly protected her family from the evils of foreign influence. (and who pay in EURO CASH).
Good times shopping in Italia… gooooood times.