Motor scooters . Motor scooters are above all designed to make you nervous. There are hundreds of them, so expect them on your left, on your right and on the sidewalk if traffic is slow enough. Nothing is more dangerous than Italian motor scooters in the town.

The car driver’s language.   The most obvious word used by Italian drivers is “ Vaffanculo! (Fuck you!)” or in the in extremely  polite cases “Ma va’ a quel paese! (Go to hell!)”. Frequently you can see furious drivers making the well known “ Gesto del manico dell’ombrello (a gesture which resembles the umbrella’s handle)”: you raise an arm (generally the right one, but in emergency case the left one too!) you violently throw it behind you, beyond your own head, bending it like an acute angle such as the tips of fingers a bit more beyond of the right ear (the left one, if it needs). Gestures accompanied by the more bountiful of  Italic expressions “ Vaffanculo!” (don’t forget: people who happen to be in Rome must keep in mind the expression of  Rome “A li mortacci tua!”, that means the same as Italian “ Vaffanculo!”, and that is indeed the more offensive thing that a Roman bloke can say to another Roman bloke!)

Italians as magicians of steering wheel.  Now and again, I myself as Italian, I am surprised.

But we Italians, we are indeed magicians with a steering wheel!

You can see Italians which, while driving, can do three things at least at the same time. Nevertheless the hands are only two!

They smoke, drive and answer the phone simultaneously. And not just that. But at the same time they are able to see traffic signals, traffic lights, and to observe the traffic laws (reinterpreted and remade of course in accordance with the personal and daily mood)…  

Italians as geniuses of steering wheel. And here I have to admit with a particular italic pride that we people of Bel Paese  “ abbiamo una marcia in più rispetto agli altri popoli!” (“ we are one up on other peoples!).Here one sees the powerful genius of  Italian capability to simplify the absurd traffic laws.

We don’t obviously talk about the The Italian  Disregard Syndrome to the speed limits, something completely smoothed out by the latest auto technology, which permits you performances once unimaginable to these limits, now trifling and obsolete. We Italians cunningly and at the right moment, can adjust the speed limits to suit the auto technology, as cars become more and more advanced and sophisticated.

When we talk about the brainwave that occurs when we, whilst on a motorway or a dual carriageway, come upon a slip road, you see that our ability to disregard the rules of the road is unparalleled.

The slip road always finishes with a horizontal line, denoting “give way”, but to whom? We have the right of way!

We join the road calmly, because we know that the vehicle approaching us automatically move into the other lane to allow us safe passage. This way there will be no queues. Everything passes fluidly without much effort and brain power.

But please, no rules. We are Italians !!!