You should have heard the lady with the dog, finding herself in the middle of a petish accident on the sidewalk past Piazza Garibaldi, share with us her outrage.

& you should have seen the recognition in her eye when, a stanza of contempt later, she saw our sympathetic yet deer-like looks of modest comprehension.

(For those who know how to draw the lineaments of that familiar visage, insert a fair approximation of our selfie in the spacious confines of this blog post below.)