why you can't hang out w/ italians..

while i'm secretly hoping no italians read this, i'll shout out a disclaimer that there are a FEW italians whom i have met and not applied to this criteria.  however, 99% of this blog has faired true for me.

MEN:  i know all of you are dying for me to find some italian hottie to bring home with me.  actually, i wouldn't mind it either. HOWEVER, italian men are impossible to talk to.  i know it's difficult to tell if a girl is into you or not, i know this.  we are a complicated being.  knowing this fact, i try to be as explicit as possible usually saying things like, "well, i'm just not interested in a relationship right now."  which translates to italian men:  "cool, so we can just sleep together".  no, not really.  then i try and pull the christian card.  "well, i'm not sleeping with anyone until i'm married."  common response:  "yeah, OKAY."  on the same note, my friend vera, gets different abuse.  she's married (and that's SO weird to be married at 23), guys feel no remorse for hitting on her.  to an italian man, she is just as single as any other woman.  it's absurd.  needless to say, i've given them a shot.  this door is closed.

WOMEN:  well, i suppose i don't have much to say about the women since none of them talk to you.  supposedly, the farther north you travel in italy, the colder the people are.  since rome is smack-dab in the middle, you find a mix of people.  as far as women are concerned, they pretty much will not speak to you unless having some sort of connection.  if i go to a bar, i would go to the male barista rather than the female - mainly because i know i will get a better cappuccino.  the men want to do you, and the women want nothing to do with you. that's pretty much how it goes here.  now, this being said, i have met some very lovely women here.  it just took a while.  also, since italian women don't give men the time of day, the men flock towards us foreigners, hoping for a glimpse of kindness.  don't give in girls, if you do they'll stalk you like a hawk after a cadaver.