Originally posted by Carol Gino:
I do know that whenever we were in Italy, everyone spoke to Mario in Italian because he walked around looking ominous, chewing on his long black cigar, and no one ever knew he couldn't speak Italian and hardly understood it. He just nodded slowly and stared at them. 
LOL - that's one of the funniest things I've ever heard!

I can just picture him walking around like the capo di tutti capi - I'm surprised anyone approached him at all!
Thanks for sharing, Carol!
JG