Forget a fancy car living in Catania. It will make sense the day we live in the countryside, but not right now. Every car in Sicily has some kind of a damage, more or less. People back into your car, lean on it, or just make damages because you have a nice car and much more that ain’t so good. This damage on our car (of many) happened when the police was chasing a thief on a motorino. The thief was looking behind where the police might be, did not see our car and pumped into it. The police can not cover the damage because the fault is not theirs, and the thief has no income nor any social back-up, so we just have to let it be and not even fix it. One morning we saw there are some white stripes on the other side. Our neighbor has a white car with grey stripes now. And no one says a word.
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Gl?m en finare bil n?r du bor i Catania. Det ?r meningsfullt dagen vi bor p? landet, men inte just nu. Varje bil p? Sicilien har n?gon form av skada, mer eller mindre. M?nniskor backar p? bilen, lutar sig p? den, eller bara g?r skada eftersom du har en fin bil och mycket mer som inte ?r s? bra. Denna skada p? v?r bil (av m?nga) h?nde n?r polisen jagade en tjuv p? en motorino. Tjuven tittade bak?t d?r polisen kan vara, s?g inte v?r bil och kraschade in i den. Polisen kan inte t?cka skadan eftersom felet inte ?r deras, och tjuven har ingen inkomst eller n?gon social backup, s? vi m?ste bara l?ta det vara och inte ens fixa det. En morgon s?g vi det fanns n?gra vita r?nder p? den andra sidan. V?r granne har en vit bil med gr? r?nder nu. Och ingen s?ger ett ord.