Ask Thoroughly Before Buying

After checking into our hotel, we took a short break before heading out to explore the city of Florence. Being in Italy meant we had to fill our taste buds with original Italian food. That thought re-entered our mind when we walked past a gelato shop. The shop front was filled with ice-cream tubs - each overflowing with rich colours. We decided to share a gelato cone - so as to re-live the delicious gelato that we had earlier tasted in Milan.

However, the lady gave her replies in Italian as we made our enquiries. We did not understand her, but assumed she understood us - that we wanted to just one medium cone consisting of 2 flavours. She willingly took out a cone & once again left us in the lurch in trying to decipher the Italian words that were scribed in front of each ice-cream tub.

After we made our decisions, we proceeded to pay for this ice-cream cone. To our astonishment, she said, '8 €' in English. I was taken aback. EITHER she deliberately refused to have a proper earlier conversation with us OR we chose not to understand her.

Nevertheless, it was a lovely gelato cone filled with cherry bits, though I wouldn't have paid  €8 (S$13.80) if I have known the price earlier. She had given us a BIG cone instead of a medium one. If only I had confirmed the cone size & made known the final price before making my selection...