Wednesday, April 04, 2007

More Snow? That's too much!

I lived in the Brownstone section of Brooklyn for about ten years and my next door neighbors were 90 years old and very Italian. They had learned a little English in the 50 years they lived in the US, but we mostly communicated by hand signals and halting phrases. The favorite one they used, for almost any and everything that was slightly unexpected or a little strange was: basically "that's too much!", which came out as "thass-a tu-a much-e.

I always think of them when things are a little odd, and right now it's snowing and expected to snow about 16 inches before it's through. On April 4th? That's too much!

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