We were on our way to Amphitheatrum Flavium – better known as the Colosseum – in the Eternal City. Many people had been out earlier than us this Saturday. The crowd coming towards us was almost as large as the one rushing towards the attraction. It was like navigation on a motorway with partial file sharing of oncoming traffic. In this throng at this speed, one often perceives a few sentences in passing. Most often these are completely ordinary sentences, but sometimes you hear something that is difficult to understand without the context in which it was said. “And then he took out his – and it was five inches longer than mine!” That was all I heard.
I made an effort to tell my girlfriend what I had heard and laughed a little to myself. But she hurried on to pick up pre-purchased tickets. I made another attempt when we stopped after picking up the tickets. And to emphasize the point, I said half aloud; it’s just like hearing someone passing by saying “I didn´t kill him – but I did hold the dildo!”
A couple stopped abruptly and turned around. We were probably not the only people picking up weird sentences in Rome this Saturday.
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