Even Greener Pastures

I really did sort of glaze over in school when the teacher would bring up a "rule" in English.  In English every spelling and grammar rule has so many exceptions that I felt it useless to memorize the rules.

Alharacas
"Be careful what you wish for. This may be exactly what you're going to get once you've retired to that Italian village of your dreams."
Thanks ever so much for deflating my romantic dreams of an idyllic Italian retirement.  Why can't you be a stereotypical German and remain reticent?

@Sofia
The children wont be mean to me will they?

No matter.  I will just do the same thing I did when the kids made fun of me in grammar school.  Sell them candy at a discount.