[Leaning Right]

There are many ways to handle a threatening - but not yet physical - situation like this. A relative of mine simply speaks "Italian" to confuse the person.

Oh, and he really doesn't speak Italian. It's much like this Peter Griffin Family Guy routine:

Family Guy

Just don't try it on a real Italian!

[notdownwidems]

Ha! That’s great. Reminds me of an incident a few years ago when I was in the French Quarter in New Orleans, standing on a street corner waiting for my wife and some of our family to come out of some shop or other...big black man comes up and starts ‘asking’ me for money. I looked at him quizzically and said ‘Je n’parle pas la Americain, j’ai Francais’. Then it was HIS turn to look quizzical!