Bad Ideas

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Dear City of Firenze: When you buy that nice big bus sign for the airport, the one saying "City Center"... You should place it where the bus boarding passengers, that will sit there for fifteen minutes, does not entirely block everyone's view of the sign.

Dear Distracted tourists: Stopping immediately at the top of the escalator to fiddle with your luggage is a very bad idea. Because, you see, there is a whole line of us right behind you. And we don't even have the option to stop and wait for you, because, as you may recall, there is this machine -- the one you just got off of? -- shoving us towards you.

Dear Me: Don't go tasting things like fresh olives just to find out why we never eat them. You can simply assume it is because they taste really, really awful.

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