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The Old Man in Gardaland




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The Old Man In Gardaland
 The Old Man is going to the market but he sees the sign of “Gardaland park” and reads : “market  of Gardaland”.

The Old Man, with his FIAT 600, goes to Gardaland instead of going to the market.

He parks his car and enters the park.

He suddenly sees giant cups and says : “oh! Delle tazze gigantii! Non sapevo che ci fosse questa nuova invenzione, voglio andare a dare un’occhiata.”- “Oh, giant cups! I didn’t know there was this new invention, I want to go and have a look”.

The Old Man is lining up to go to see the giant cups but when it is his turn the conductor says: “you are too old for these games, you might be doing wrong” .

Then the old man became angry and said: “ma che cosa sta dicendo lei?,hrgtthfdrdtrthtfrfg, ma mi sta prendendo in giro?” – “What are you saying? Are you pulling my legs?”

Then he pushes the Old Man into a giant cup and at the beginning of the ride the Old Man shouts: “sto per vomitare!!!!” – “I’m almost throwing out!!!!” and gets off.

The Old Man walks  and sees a sign, there is written “hall of mirrors” and next there is a mirror after that he says: “oh! Ma qui dentro ci sono degli specchi, mi servivano proprio” – “Oh, here there are mirrors, I needed them”.

The Old Man goes into the “ hall of mirrors”.

Once inside he went mad, he began to bang everywhere.

The Old Man starts to shout: “ma che market é questo, prima mi fate vomitare, ora invece mi fate sbattere addosso a questi maledetti specchi” – “What market is this, first I vomit then I bang against these awful mirrors”.

He then took a chair and began to break everything.

And he went out from Gardaland and said: “non tornerò mai più in questo market maledetto!!!!” – “I will never come back to this damned market again”! 

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