” It was pretty funny because it was at the public restrooms and he finally gave up and started gesturing for more toilet paper by imitating wiping his ass...”
I know that was just an observation.......but I fell off of my couch reading that.
Back in ‘99 many public restrooms in Italy were monitored by elderly pensioners. One had to pay for toilet paper and if you didn’t have change (before the advent of the Euro) one was SOL - really. Watching this particular American gesturing for toilet paper was definitely funny. The old lady watched him very intently but just shrugged, turning out the pockets of her apron to signal she had nothing left but told him in Italian (as if he could understand) to wait 10 minutes while she went for more.
Il Palio - the bareback horse race in Siena’s Piazza del Campo - gets huge crowds so the aforementioned tourist entertained more than our group.