Italian parking: an album.

"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee) 10/10/2018 at 04:17 • Filed to: None

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Technically not blocking the crosswalk so it’s all good fam

Italian Parking Rule #1: Find literally any spot where your car will fit and just shove it in there.

Technically not blocking the intersection. These were there overnight.

Rule #2: lol there are no other rules

Wanna park ON a street corner? Go ahead. Polizia don’t give a fuck.

You say sidewalk I say loading zone.

These were taken in just one city over the course of 12 hours. I spent 9 of those asleep or in my room so really I saw these over just 3 hours.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 10/10/2018 at 04:32

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Driving (and parking) in some parts of Italy is just a free for all thing. I think it gets worse the further south you go.

pip bip - choose Corrour > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 10/10/2018 at 04:32

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i’m surprised there isn’t one on the bike path

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 10/10/2018 at 04:36

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I'm almost as far north as it gets. I’d hate to see what Napoli looks like.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > pip bip - choose Corrour 10/10/2018 at 04:39

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That seems to be just about the only place sacred here. Cycling is too important to Europeans to disrespect like that.

kanadanmajava1 > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 10/10/2018 at 04:57

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P i s s i n g o f f adrenaline f i l l e d b i c y c l i s ts i s a good way for getting your car vandalized .

Svend > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 10/10/2018 at 05:29

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Go into Milan, Turin, etc... and take your life in your hands to cross a road. It's just a free for all. 

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 10/10/2018 at 05:41

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No street parked Ferrari then? What a surprise...

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 10/10/2018 at 06:55

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I’d be terrified bringing a $30,000 car int o this city, let alone a $230,000 one.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 10/10/2018 at 07:00

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Which makes the apparent fascination of Ferrari to Italians all the more mystifying.

arl > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 10/10/2018 at 07:47

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My wife and I were in Rome a few summers ago and after dinner we decided to hop a cab back to the hotel. We got in a cab with a nice little old lady driver, and I thought to my self “Ah, this will be a nice relaxing drive back to the hotel”.

Holy hell. I don’t know the make and model of the car, but it was small and it had a manual transmission. Grandma lit up a cigarette , put it in first and tore down the street. It was like getting a ride with a professional rally driver; screaming down side streets, double clutching . ashes flying everywhere, it was insane. I was grinning ear to ear and I thought I had found my true spirit animal - a rally driving 70 year old Italian grandma.

My wife was trying not to puke every time we screeched through a round-a-bout, but I had a blast. Of course I had a few glasses of wine in me as well.

Maybe if I had been sober I would have have yelling at her to slow down, but...... maybe not?

I t’s one of my favorite memories of Rome.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 10/10/2018 at 08:19

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Palermo is basically a city wide game of chicken everywhere

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > arl 10/10/2018 at 09:39

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Haha, yeah that will probably be something you’ll remember forever.

That’s the great thing about Italy, some of the people are the right kind of crazy!

bobbe17 > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 10/10/2018 at 10:25

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This was my favorite in Milan this past May. “Screw your laws, I drive a Mercedes!"

facw > kanadanmajava1 10/10/2018 at 10:51

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Yeah, I think a car there might end up with some chain/lock marks on it.

Urambo Tauro > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 10/10/2018 at 11:10

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Technically not blocking the intersection.

It is blocking one’s view to see if it’s safe to proceed, not that that’s important or anything...