First impressions and the unreliability of a tired mind
Wow! Transcontinental flights are long and incredibly uncomfortable! I'm quite accustomed to long haul drives numbering north of 12-14 hour long stretches. But the lack of any adequate gas stations 36,000 feet in the air makes a flight of the same duration 20x worse. By the time I arrived in Italy I hadn't slept for 24 hours and by the time I had reached my accommodations I had been awake for over 28 hours, and hadn't eaten for the last 15 hours or so. It would be a gross understatement to say i felt like the icy touch of death was caressing my neck. So in as few words as possible, I was in a terrible mood. Which then lead to me being very angry at everything Id seen since landing in Napoli. The streets were full of moped drivers who seemed to not realize that they are in fact flesh and blood and very squishy compared to asphalt. The best way to put it is that in Texas the chaos forms out of order, everybody pushes the limits of what's legal to m...