Italians love them some motor scooters and cigarettes.

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Italians love them some motor scooters and cigarettes.

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Those 2 things are objectively cool so I guess Italians are awesome.

I mean have you ever ridden a motor scooter and had a bad time? Have you ever seen someone smoke a cig and not look cool?

The answer to both is no.

I’m down to wear some Suede jump suits with a wife beater on and gold chains while riding a vespa.

In the warmer months the chicks ride around on those things in sun dresses and no underpants.

We used to call them "cooter scooters"

I highly recommend you get out of Rome and experience smaller cities/towns in Italy.

I love Italy, I really don’t like Rome.

Bad drivers of Italy on YT always makes me feel better about the driving over here

Got 700.00 worth of traffic tickets in the mail when I got home from Italy. After I witnessed those crazy bastards driving, I tore up the tickets. Frick Italy.

Italy is a walking contradiction of a country. On one hand you wonder how many of them (Rome especially) survive a normal day without doing something stupid to kill themselves, and on the other hand it’s the same people who created some of the finest art, cars, clothing to have ever existed. Italians are a hot mess.

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They generally do not love shampoo. I can't tell you how hard it was today to find a bottle of regular shampoo in Rome.

I also think that 80% of the waiters in the restaurants are Muslim. They are very friendly, but they probably all called in sick for Friday's jihad day (where, as I understand it, they were beaten with clubs by the Polizia... geaux Italy).

But the motor scooters.... OMG. Traffic laws mean nothing to these people. Just speeding street toughs on Vespas. Literally everywhere.

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About 10 years ago there was study done that indicated about 85% of the emissions in Rome were due to scooters. They are AWFUL for the environment compared to cars and other modes of transportation. They love 'em though.

Romans are the best drives in the world and it ain't close. They will 6 abreast in a roundabout meant for 2 and no one ever scratches the paint! They can also park a car in the smallest imaginable space.

My son and I spent a month in a tent on a beach in Pisa one summer and every evening we went to what amounts to the boardwalk in Europe (yes, there is a redneck Riveria in Italy too). They had bumper cars there. Thats where they train Italians to drive. Those kids would be 15 bumper cars across in a space not big enough for 10, all going hell bent for leather and nary a scrape of bump. My son, being from the states, put a stop to that idiocy....the first time he drove against the flow of traffic the parents almost died...it got so ugly that had they been Americans we'd have been in a fist fight. Being Europeans all I had to do to back them off is talk loud and give them a dose of crazy eyes. Pretty soon the Italian kids realized that bumping into one another was far funner than not bumping into one another and a damned melee began. The kids thought my son was a genius...I did not have to buy tickets for the rids or an Italian ice the rest of the time we were there...the Italian kids his age had him covered! Even the parents came around somewhat...what choice did they have, they certainly weren't going to face that loud crazy eyed American twice in life....