A Euro a Day

  • Number of Euros we owe for a parking fine incurred yesterday:  28
  • Steaks we bought from the butcher for tonight’s dinner:  3
  • Days we have to pay the parking ticket before it increases to 41 Euros:  5
  • Bathrooms that did not have hot water for showers this morning:  2
  • Washingtonians it takes to discover a light switch that apparently didn’t do anything but in reality turned off the hot water heater:  6
  • Hours it took for the hot water heater in two bathrooms to recover from being inadvertently turned off last night:  12
  • Temperature of our outdoor pool:  62
  • Number of men who swam briefly in the outdoor pool:  2

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  • Grandchildren we Facetimed with tonight:  3
  • Hours it takes to wash one load of laundry:  1
  • Days it takes for one load of laundry to dry on the drying rack in the basement or outside, depending on the weather: 2
  • Number of Italian spice packets we three ladies purchased in Castillina:  29
  • Scoops of gelato consumed for lunch by six people:  15

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  • Etruscan tombs visited:  1
  • Pastries we purchased for dessert tonight:  18
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  • Etruscan museum visited:  1
  • Euros paid into a parking meter to park in Castillina today so we would not incur another fine:  3
  • Hours 3 Euros is worth in the parking lot:  3
  • Fellow Americans we adamantly warned to go back and purchase a parking permit so they would not also incur a fine like we did:  2
  • Euros paid to use the public WC: .50
  • Number of people who used the public WC:  1
  • Number of people we thought about sqeezing into the public WC to save on Euros but really didn’t so don’t dwell on this please:  3
  • Minutes we thought we had left before adding more Euros to the parking meter so we would not incur a second fine:  45
  • Euros spent in the pottery shop so that we wouldn’t feel badly about asking the proprietor who speaks a bit of English to please translate our parking ticket for us and tell us how to pay it:  56

 

  • Number of Euros the pottery shop proprietor told us we actually had to pay to the meter today  because it was Sunday: 0
  • Euros wasted on parking in Castillina today: 3
  • Euros paid for three very thick steaks to the butcher who whacked them from a hunk of meat and presented them to us with a sweep of his hand: 25
  • Hours it took to heat charcoal for BBQing our steaks for dinner tonight:  1
  • Minutes for the steaks to cook:  20

 

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  • Pastries leftover for breakfast in the morning:  5
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One Response to A Euro a Day

  1. Jessica says:

    Daughter and cat entertained by the story: 1. The çat was bored and fell asleep.

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