Ladies and Gentlemen( that prefer men)
I have a confession to make to you all. As you all know, I hate when people stare at me. After five years of living in Italy, it still gets to me. I was taught it's rude to stare, so it's the biggest pet peeve that I have in life. However, yesterday I myself became guilty of the same crime in the most hideous way. I went shopping yesterday afternoon because every Friday is my shopping day. I was unloading the bags into my car, when I happened to glance upward toward a house that is opposite of the supermarket, and saw a Roman God. He was helping what I assumed was his mother hang her drapes over the window to block out the sun. I could see that he was a tall man gentleman with short Hawaiian shorts and he was adjusting the drapes on the window with his hands over his head, thus I could see his perfectly scultped body through the opened window. I couldn't stop staring at him and I believe I even had some drool on the side of my mouth with tougue on the side. Now, I'm a happily married woman or so I thought until yesterday. I'm just kidding because I do love my hubby dearly. However, that man was a Roman God in the flesh and had a body and face that seemed to have been sculpted by God's personl hands. To my horror of staring in the first place,the Roman God caught me staring at his perfect bronzed torso and face. He then gave me a smile that is fitting of a Roman God who bestowes his attention on a lowly mortal and said " Ciao bellissima, Come stai?" I myself with a face that was red as the tomatoes that I had just purchased could only whisper ciao followed by a bene grazie. I wanted to fall into a hole because I know what's it like to be stared at, and my stare was anything but curious when he caught me looking at him. I quickly got in my car and drove off like a mad woman. How many of you have ever been caught staring at a God or Goddess( with or without drool)? I must make a note to buy some really dark sunglasses because now I understand why Italians like the dark sunglasses so much. I just found another reason to love Italy and they are the following: art, food, culture, and GODS.

oh I do it all the time Looking never hurt anyone! I'll admit that I get extremely embarrassed if I'm caught in action, though.

Me stare at a Goddess??? She doesn't have to be a Goddess I might be old and losing some vision, but I still look. Had to give up the serious staring as it really upsets my wife. Therefore, it is not worth the aftermath!!! If the Goddesses would only stare back without laughing!!!

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Had to give up the serious staring as it really upsets my wife. Therefore, it is not worth the aftermath!!!

Come on Gil, like Aurora said you gotta get the super dark sunglasses. (Truthfully though, they don't work- wives can tell without even seeing your eyes move. It's some kind of eerie sixth sense.)

I think you women should be happy that for us men a women doesn't have to be so perfect to be considered a goddess or least worth a stare. Thus we stare much more often.

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Come on Gil, like Aurora said you gotta get the super dark sunglasses. (Truthfully though, they don't work- wives can tell without even seeing your eyes move. It's some kind of eerie sixth sense.)

My wife can tell. Now that she has started her 7th decade (turned 60 a few months ago) I just give her plenty of compliments!!!

Good plan!

One of the many things I love about my husband is that he knows, I stare at a good looking person but that doesn't mean I touch. If I see someone who makes me drop what I am doing and just stare, I do. Nothing wrong with it. Hubby too. Sometimes a woman will be on TV or walking down the street and I will nudge him and say "I know what you are looking at" and we will laugh. Looking is good. Oh and if I get caught, well, I just say "che fico!" and they smile and say grazie.

My staring is getting worse. What happens when the goddesses are friends? Several of my friends have a fidanzata that is definitely stare worthy and here I am at the beach with them. Just the other day I was talking to one of them and she has a "bikini top malfunction" during our coversation. Thank god for dark sunglasses but...still we couldn't keep a straight face and pretend like nothing happened.
I still try to stare but I'm single....

Jeffo

If you really need to stare - there's only one thing to remember...

Do it with 'care' as a smack in the mouth often offends!!!!




Carole B.

The best balance has been achieved by a couple of friends of mine. She is bisexual, so she can share about half of her stares with her husband. Sharing stares seems to be a good way to depower unjustified jealousy.

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Originally posted by AliceTwain:
The best balance has been achieved by a couple of friends of mine. She is bisexual, so she can share about half of her stares with her husband. Sharing stares seems to be a good way to depower unjustified jealousy.

Wouldn't they disagree about "I saw her first"?

If they had not been married to each other maybe. But they are.

Cristina, "che fico"?? as long as you can have a sense of humor with the person you are married to, staring is natural and pretty normal..... my husband does give me a hard time when other men look at me to long or a 2nd time.. I work in an office now, which is really differnt, after 14 plus years working with students in classrooms he was not worried!! haha! now I wear a low cut sleeveless summer top with just a "Tinsy" little bit of cleavage showing, he is all about paying close attention at that point!!!! I personnaly cannot wait to see these Roman Gods!!!! I am will be wearing those BIG dark sunglases myself!!!
hhahaa!

Ciao!!
MamaMia

"Che Fico" or fica, a rather vulgar reference to a certain part of the female anatomy, right?

AAACK I typed it with a "c", it should be with a "g" figo. Good looking hunk of a guy. Fico just means fig, in the feminine version, yes you are correct it is that.

Che figo not with a c - Cristina hiding her head in shame.

Actually, the words in both feminine and masculine is used in both meaning and with both "c" and "g".

In (modern) Milanese a "figata" is something really cool, while a "cazzata" is something really awful. This should be enough, according to Iacopo Fo (Nobel prize Dario Fo's son) to demontstrate the superiority of the woman.

And, yes, female sex in Milano is with a "g".

Well however you spell it, it seems to a term quite commonly used but still offensive to some mostly I suppose the older generations. My wife not that old has totally banned me from using it. I'm trying to think of an equivalent in English - nice pussy, great dick, what?