Mind the Roses

Uncle Michelino
Born in Pellezzano di Salerno from an affluent family in a very poor world, my uncle Michelino had known happy days before the failure of his father's flask factory. After the disappearance of his father, possibly due to suicide, he had to interrupt his studies and leave the safe haven of the Father Salesian School, about which he always had good things to say. If his luck hadn't run out, maybe Michelino could have become the king of flasks.
After a while, we see him as an immigrant in Rome with his whole family. Luckily, friends of friends found him a job as an office boy in a private patent and trademark office.
The life of a young office boy from a good family was hard. He ate dirt at work but mama's good macaroni at home. In his spare time, he joined the merry brigade of paesanos in Rome.
Uncle Michelino was not a daring guy, but luck helped him anyway because the main partner of the office had an only son of the same age with whom he made friends. At the time of military service friendships count, especially if Italy had just entered the Second World War. Uncle Michelino showed up for a medical check-up in the barracks with a strange fever, due to a cigar he had kept under his armpit. The military doctor was been whispered a name and all ends well.
Luck was not yet satisfied with Michelino. See what happened some years later. The Patent and Trademark office had a branch in Milan and it happened that its director could resist temptation, to the detriment of the partners. That director must therefore be replaced quickly, but the men were at war and an incredulous uncle Michelino was catapulted by fate around Piazza del Duomo, where he landed off as a manager. For years he will carry out his honest job as a pain in the ass to the office employees. Mists in winter and too dry heat in summer, this was Milan, a city where everyone runs, without knowing the reason. Uncle Michelino was seized by the neophyte syndrome, the renegade Southerner used to chat about efficient Milanese and loafer Romans.

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