gather 'round children

it's story time.

So Once Upon a Time, In a far away land....

There was an Architecture student who was comming back from her drawing class in the downtown area of this particularly far away land's city. She hopped on the tram after having a leisurely stroll and realized that her bus-pass was going to expire the next day, not knowing when the next time she would have an opportunity to buy another bus pass, she decided to buy one on the tram to be used on a future date. So she did. And who should appear not but thirty seconds later but a nun. The nun asked her in the native language of this foreign land, if she was in fact "siete italiana?". The girl stumbled through a "no" and the nun frog-marched the girl towards the buspass verifier. (this is a magical device to make sure people don't use public transportation for free) All the while the girl was trying to explain that she already had a valid pass and that this was for a future date. Nevertheless the nun was unrelenting and demanded she validate her pass by means of the magic device. The girl gave up and rode the rest of the way on the tram with two perfectly good passes, not sure whether or not she should feel miffed about the nun, and whether or not she was allowed to be miffed. Because the woman was, after all, a nun.

Epilogue:
The girl went home and checked out this phrase:

Sorella, questo biglietto è valida per l'oggi e questo biglietto è per domani.

roughly translating to:

Sister, this ticket is valid for today and this ticket is for tomorrow.

...just in case it ever happens again.