pass the crack pipe, grandpa

Weather here has been insane. There is no other word for it.
This morning it was something like 90 degrees...then about 1pm while I was
teaching in the crummy basement of a large technical firm, it started pouring
buckets. By 1:16 pm the rain had ceased and it was sunny again, the
drops that had stained the glass dried in a matter of minutes leaving
only a dirty web.
For those who weren't told, yesterday was "Crazy Old Men Gone Wild" day. On my way to work an elderly Italian bloke got on and spent the next 10 minutes pretending to be English. "Please sit down," he would say, and "Excuse me, thank you" in his worst fake-o British accent.
Finally a lady called him on it. Fed up, she shifted her enormous body towards him (as only over-60s Italian women know how to do), and with a look of menace said "Listen, why don't you just stop pretending to be English, because you're not fooling anyone and frankly it's getting annoying."
I was laughing on the inside like a wee babe. Until a seat opened up behind me and
the old fart sat down, only to commence singing some annoying little ditty in what I understood to be Neapolitan...over and over and over again for close to thirty bloody minutes. That's what I get for laughing.

The fun doesn't stop there, kids! On my way back from work, another old man (this time of the "Unkempt Conspiracy Theorist" school) spent the better part of 20 minutes shouting about how the "enemies" were going to enslave us, how "they" were controlling us
through our mobile phones, and asserting that basically there was no escape because
"they" were everywhere, above all hiding within the bodies of foreigners. Unbeknowst to them, poor immigrants, I'm sure they thought they were guilty only of coming to this country in search of a better life when indeed they are hosts for Italian bureaucrats!
Now... that the bureaucrats are out to get us...and ME in particular, is true...and I am convinced that if I peeled away the skin of any politician here there would be a snake or V-like lizard beneath...but they are certainly not taking up residence in the shells of poor Sri Lankan or Peruvian people.
Last but not least, always yesterday there was an incident at the school with an elderly couple. They walked in and began causing a ruckus, and then the little old fella punched the student tutor and started banging on the glass windows with his belt while shouting profanities. I think "Loony Radio" must have been set to "Senility" yesterday. And this old guy just became my personal hero.

On another note, I no longer look like death warmed over. I am back to a regular running schedule and am soaking in the sun, though it hasn't exactly been showing itself much here what with the torrential rains and all. Better weather will come. Sometime.