Can you imagine a skip's grandma saying to their grandkids: "You're fucking me around!"
You've been hit many times by your Nonno's belt and your Nonna's flying pandofolo (slipper or slip-on shoe) when you were little.
Your family still congregates to make tomato sauce, wine and sausages once a year.
Someone in the family gets paid with a bottle of home-made wine or a chilli capacuolo for helping out and that wine is usually bad tasting vinegar with a pinky color.
Whenever your Nonno or Nonna go to Italy (never together) they bring back two stacks of Napolitano Scopa cards and about five bottles of Strega, Galiano and
Sambuca. (all liqueur)
You have a room at your Nonni's house called the "salotto" which is restricted with heavy "persecution", if you're game enough to call it something so light.
Your Nonni's back gate is the only gate used by visitors and their back garden has about 10 fruit trees.
The family plumber is a childhood friend of your grandparents,
Your family electrician is your Nonna's nephew
Your family accountant is your uncle and godfather/sponsor.
Your patron saint is always somehow "related" to the family... or that is what your Nonna would have you believe.
