*bows* Well, of course that is an exageration of our attitudes and uses: taken one by one, italians tend to be much more like any other people you know, those problems arise when italians drive or act as a group (and football fans). Anyway, talking more seriously, it's not a little problem, just today i had a discussion with a friend of mine that was enraged because he got fined because he parked in a no-parking area. He refused to admit that parking on pedestrian walkways is all but a sign of uncivility, saing that there was another one on the other side of the road (tell this to a person on a wheel-chair: i bet he would be veeeery happy of you parking on the walkway ... ) I was really upset...