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Plenty of Italian Priests, a Cell Phone, and a Girl in Need

Where: Italy
October 4, 2006 at 3:54 PM | by | Comments (0)


We asked you for your "first time" stories and you delivered. The only requirement was that your first time story involve travel, in one way or another. Even Scarlett Johansson told us about her first time, but we didn't let her enter the competition.

Without further adieu, we turn the mic over to Lisa, who is our first of two winners.

Congrats to Lisa, who wins her choice of three Rough Guides First Time books. A hint to the rest of you: Asking priests for stuff always gets our attention.

Winning story #1 post click

The first time I used a cell phone was in Florence, Italy, about eight years ago. I needed to get hold of someone at our hotel but couldn't find a public phone nearby.

All of a sudden, all of the priests began to stream out the Duomo doors, and they were all on cell phones (talking to God, perhaps?!?). I thought, what the heck. I went up to one of them and kindly asked if I could borrow his phone. With a smile, he handed it to me, no questions asked.

So there you have it. Priests not only carry cell phones, but also allow tourists to use them.

[Photo: lan4t]




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