A conversation with an Italian neighbourhood stranger, moments after nearly being hit by a car going 80 clicks round the bend:
- Why is everyone in such a hurry now? I don't think they even saw your dog.
- Yeah, they were going pretty fast. There's a "Limit 40km/h" sign right there too!
- I don't know what this neighbourhood's coming to. Have you been here long? I've lived here 25 years.
- Wow....well, nearly 20 years myself. Things have changed around here though - take that school for instance.
- How do you mean?
- Well, it's a Russian Montessori now.
- A what?
- A Russian Monte....private school, what have you.
- Goddamn Russian mafia moved in?
- Haha...well, nobody likes them. Their kids throw cigarette butts and garbage everywhere, they tell us to stay off their playground, we really don't get along.
- I see those goddamn smokers all the time, I think they're even smoking...what do you call it. Grass. Dope.
- Really?
- Certainly. Russian mafias, they're the worst of all. So much worse than Italian mafia or Chinese mafia.
- Actually, we prefer to call ours "Triads."
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