So now I was in this habit of always going to Ronchi's on Teusdays and Thursdays then sometimes in the afternoons for lunch, it was wonderful, I thought that there was only Karaoke on Teusdays and Thursdays, that was not true at all. Well I thought Ronchi's was only a restuarant with Karaoke, that was not true at all neither, it was a Restuarante Musica Dal Vivo, and there were no Music actually on Teusdays, it was just by chance that the 2nd week of my stay in Milan that they had music.
The next Teusday when I arrived for Karaoke at Ronchi's, nothing was there so I asked Max where the music was, he replied that there was none and told me to wait for the football team, now at that moment I was really confused "football team"???
Allora, so I waited and I waited untill 11pm, but Max told me to wait. So the football players entered, among these players were Mirko and Giacomo aswell, now my mind was buzzing, I was wondering what was gong on, questions like "are these people football players that owns a karaoke restuarant?" it was a very strange setup. So now I was feeling a bit uncomfortable, my bladder was full, I needed to urinate and all exits were closed meaning that these football players were sitting at a long tabe that blocked me from going to the bathroom and to the front door to leave.
So I sighed, I had no chioce but to sit.
Mirko was sitting at the first end of the table with Giacomo right next to him on his left, then they talked and my bladder was growing by the second, I even started to swing my feet back and forth in front of myself to keep myself from urinating in my chair. If the football players were wondering what I was doing at that time, when they read this they will know.
The day before I gave Giacomo (Ronchi's) their first gift, it was my Jamie Oliver Italian cook book, hahahahaha I know this story is so unreal but its true.
Giacomo then got up, collected the cook book and showed it to Mirko, Mirko looked confused so he called me over to question me, it felt like an interrogation I was asked many questions.
Then ofcoarse Mirko who at that time I stil knew as All Puccino started to warm up to me and started to introduce the football team with their occupations, all I could remember was, that All Puccino was a stunt man for All Puccino and that Bepe was a pimp, it was not really true but I had fun, I laughed so much at Mirko ahhh he was really funny.
Obviously I now loved spending time at Ronchi78, for Giacomo who has been wonderful from day one, Max, Paolo and all the people, for the music and at that time now for Mirko and the football team.
Everytime after that day I really could not wait to get to Ronchi's again, when I was not close to them I really missed them so I was practically always there. When I was visited any other restaurant or any other place I missed them, only when I walked into Ronchi's I did not miss them.
The only problem was was that my first Hotel I stayed in was a really wonderful Hotel but in Maccichinni so I had to take the Metro before 12 every night and many times I would stay at Ronchis past 12 then I either had to take a taxi or a tram back to my hotel, I did not want to take to taxi afte a while anymore it was quite expensive to take a taxi every night and the tram was confusing I got lost all the time.
The one week, Anna went with me to Ronchis and we discussed before the time that I can stay over at her place, so we went to Ronchis and we had fun, then Anna was really tired and told me that she was gong home but I just need to call her when I was outside her apartment so that she could open up for me.
Allora, it was about 2am when I left Ronchi's and got completely lost to her apartment, so I sighed, the streets were empty it was really cold so I decided: "well I dont know where I am so let me walk round and sing." I then walked round and sang out loud dancing too in the empty streets of Center Milan, Picturing myself in a broadway musical, ohhh It was wonderful, suddenly (pause for 5 seconds and hold your breath.....1.......2.........3........4..........5 ..... allora exhale per favore), the scurity guards came, he told me "signora, you sing beautiful, but you cannot sing now, people are sleeping", then I felt a bit sad, so I told him that I was lost and gave him my girlfriend's address.
The security guard was so helpful he was even a tour guide too, he showed me ancient Roman ruins aswell, it was really interesting.
I found my location finally so I tried to phone my friend, unfortunitaly I realised that I had no more call time so it was pointless, my only chioce at that time and that moment was to walk around and sing softly, so I did, I sang and danced in the streets of Milan for another two hours untill the Metro opened and it was really cold but I had so much fun.
The freezing cold did make me think about the homeless and what they would do for heat during Christmas.
I will write about my adventure again soon,
I wish you all a beautiful day filled with love, light and laughter.
Amore Sempre
