Unfiltered Story #281155

( _I work in a small supermarket in a student neighbourhood. It’s early in the morning and during a national health emergency, so there isn’t a whole lot of people in the store and, thus, I try to chat up with people if I can. At some point, towards the end of my shift, I see a young guy with a full shopping cart coming at my register._ )

*Me*: “Wow, that’s a lot of food!”

*Guy*: _places his groceries on the conveyor belt_ “Yeah, it is, gotta take stuff for tomorrow.”

Me: smiling “Oh, so you’re celebrating Republic Day in style, uhuh?”

(_The guy locks up and glares at me._)

*Guy*: “You mean Electoral Fraud Day, right?”

(_I recoil, as I had never heard of anyone calling it so._)

*Me*: “Uhm… I guess? I don’t know.”

*Guy*: “Ah, I see that you don’t know that those damned jacobines committed electroal fraud, so that the chimp cage that’s the parliament could run Italy into the ground!”

( _He then starts ranting about how the votes in favour of the Republic were inflated, how a monarchy was the sole possible option for a rich Italy, how he’d wish to tear down Palazzo Chigi to build a monument to the failures of “jacobinism” and so on. All the while, he keeps putting items on the belt while I silently scan them up. After what feels like an eternity, after he’s done bagging, he turns back to me._)

*Guy*: _shouting_ “Long Live Victor Emmanuel IV, King of Italy!”

( _He then left in a hurry, leaving me pretty confused and jarred. I didn’t think monarchists still existed in Italy, let alone passionate young ones!_)