Don't swear at the waiter
When my Italian mother married my English father and came to England, she couldn't speak English. In a reastaurant one day, the waiter was serving her some food and giving her too much, so she was saying Basta, basta, enough, enough! However, he thought she was casting aspersions on his parentage, and my father had to do some hasty explaining!
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A similar story but this time in Italy. My daughter and a friend's child came running back to us one day to tell us that the old lady in the shop had sworn at them ... in fact she'd just had enough of them practising their Italian and asking her the price of everything in her shop!
This is really funny! Being an Italian who now lives in the US I truly appreciate the humour of this situation.
There was a similar incident in Peterborough just after the war when Italian and English workers had a fight at the brick-works: too many bricks were coming down the conveyor-belt _ shouts of basta, basta from the Italians were totally miunderstood.
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