In Italy I saw this shirt or some version of it all over the place, usually worn by young people.<\/p>\n
When I pointed it out to my husband (whose area of study frequently takes him to Italy), he explained that much of the time Italians will wear T-shirts with logos or expressions whose meaning they don’t understand.<\/p>\n
Maybe this struck me because I’ve just written a book built on the assumption that we Americans, in contrast, actually understand<\/em> (or seek to understand) the meaning of the bumper stickers we put on our cars.<\/p>\n On our last day in the charming village of Vernazza on the coast of the Mediterranean, we were standing at a counter drinking our espressos\u2014a commendable habit that became delightfully easy to slip into\u2014when our server approached wearing a T-shirt with some flashy picture of a car…or moose…or something, with an indiscernible expression in big, bold red lettering. My husband asked the young man what his shirt said. The man smiled and with a hint of self-deprecation, shrugged, and replied, “I don’t know.”<\/p>\n We all laughed.<\/p>\n On that note, go seize the day.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Italy I saw this shirt or some version of it all over the place, usually worn by young people. When I pointed it out to my husband (whose area of study frequently takes him to Italy), he explained that much of the time Italians will wear T-shirts with logos or expressions whose meaning they…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,631,187],"tags":[370,1867,1866,1868,1699],"class_list":["post-4365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-saints-and-sinners","tag-bumper-stickers","tag-carpe-diem","tag-italian-culture","tag-latin","tag-mental-health-break"],"yoast_head":"\n