Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/Milano-Froid No 8: FAT MARGOT

Our Man in Europe/davedelacroix/Milano-Froid No. 8:  FAT MARGOT


Actually? "Fat Margot" (old pal from Montreal, Canada) has never been physically OBESE in her entire life! She's FAT, that is all. -with humor, vivacity, eccentricity and generosity; the  times I've tried to impede her dynamic, I cannot count?

"Honey?" -I say., "THIS is Piacenza, Italy. I ALSO busk-play guitar here on the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II (street), so PUR-LEEZE do NOT "tip" thee - so called? - BLIND GUY with the  SAD DOG  €100; give that €100 to ME!!!"
But "Fat Margot" is not to be dissuaded.
(I cry in my Vino!)

SHOPPING is the other thing?
"Honey?" -I say, "LET ME HANDLE THIS!?" -the "locals fleece her, as she knows NOT the Italian custom of "barter" (argue the price!). She blows €1,000 which "I" could nail down to €200!
What the hell? -it's ALL "fun and games";
whilst she stays at the HOTEL DAVE (€35 per nite/big screen TV).

 I introduce her to "the Usual Suspects", fave bar-cafes-ragaazi, the Palazzo Farnese, Ricci-Oddi Art gallery, Chiesa (churches) St. Sisto, Sepulcro, Brigitta and Margaritta (Doh! Wicked pen!) MARGARET AND RITA (whatever?), etc., etc.
THEN...groovy host that I am? ...I personally supervise her travel-tour-departure. I know a couple of local private pilots. They fly outta the local air strip.
No doubt, "Fat Margot" TIPS these fellas BIG TIME, as she private GS4 JETS down to Florence, Sardinia, or over to Venice? And, like a whirlwind, she's blusters out, and is gone...

...quite forgetting to pay the HOTEL DAVE (€35 per nite/big screen TV) bill?
...But, for "Fat Margot"? -this one, I'll eat....:)


c 2013/june/davedelacroix/lord borgo/piacenza-Italia.