(Parma, Itally) - Randomness

This was sent to my family also, so you don't know some of the people, but just play along...

Last night Marialisa was telling me about the Bob Dylan concert that was in Parco Ducale last Thursday and I realized and interesting coincidence. I did not mention this earlier, it did not seem too important, but on my way to the train station to go to Cinque Terre last week a big, tan, luxury car pooled over on a major street I was walking by. The passenger stuck his head out the window and asked in native English “Where’s Parco Ducale?” I was a bit surprised, no one in Parma speaks English, much less without the quirky Italian accent, this guy got lucky that he just happened to ask me, the only other native English speaker in town. After a few seconds of switching back into English mode I responded and gave him directions, which I realized later were actually not very good directions (maybe he wasn’t so lucky…). I told this to Giulia, and when she was talking to Marialisa about the concert, she mentioned how Bob Dylan showed up in a big, light brown luxury car. We got to talking and our descriptions matched up pretty good. I looked up some pictures, and though I can’t be 100% sure, I think I gave Bob Dylan the wrong directions to Parco Ducale, he seemed in a hurry, and Marialisa said he was late and flustered when he got there.