- I Nonni {Tuesdays with Tina, part 1}
- Vincenzo Migliaro, famous painter {Tuesdays with Tina, part 2}
- {Tuesdays with Tina, part 3}
- Vico Canale {Tuesdays with Tina, part 4}
- It’s a girl! {Tuesdays with Tina, part 5}
- Working with the Americans {Tuesdays with Tina, part 6}
- Anna’s story {Tuesdays with Tina, part 7}
- School and Work {Tuesdays with Tina, part 8}
- Life in the Tailor Shop {Tuesdays with Tina, part 9}
- Life before television {Tuesdays with Tina, part 10}
- Sickness and health {Tuesdays with Tina}
- Celebrating Holidays {Tuesdays with Tina, part 12}
- Life in Naples in the Late 50s, Early 60s {Tuesdays with Tina, part 13}
- Celebrating New Year’s in Naples {Tuesdays with Tina, part 14}
- Meeting my dad {Tuesdays with Tina, part 15 }
- Meeting dad continued {Tuesdays with Tina, part 16}
- Going on Dates {Tuesdays with Tina, part 17}
- Going to the Chapel…{Tuesdays with Tina, part 18}
- The Honeymoon! {Tuesdays with Tina, part 19}
- Honeymoon in Germany, continued {Tuesdays with Tina, Part 20}
- First Comes Love; Then Comes Marriage; Then Comes… {Tuesdays with Tina, Part 21}
- Then comes baby! {Tuesdays with Tina, Part 22}
Tina: No, no. We got married on a Sunday and that night we left to go to Germany. We drove all night. I was so excited about driving, I wasn’t sleepy, so a little me a little him, we arrived in Germany the following morning! After a wedding and a reception!
Hugh: And that day we didn’t do nothing.
Tina: No, we didn’t do nothing because –
Hugh: We rented a place that next night, in a German house
Tina: No, Ugo, you’re getting confused –
Hugh: No I’m not!
Tina: Believe me, you’re getting confused…The first night we went to Garmisch. Then we moved on to other places but the first night was in Garmisch.
Hugh: Tina, I didn’t get anything until I was in the hospital – you got drunk that night –
Tina: No, no… (He doesn’t remember anything…)
Me: I remember the story that you went to some motel that was like the Psycho motel.
Tina: That was a guest house.
Me: So was that in Garmisch?
Dad: No.
Tina: No, because we traveled then. We went to Amelia Earhart Hospital.
Hugh: That’s where we…
Tina: No! No! I remember where we consummated! It was in Garmisch!
Hugh: Tina it’s not true! We hit Garmisch on the way back down!
Tina: I remember the first stop was Garmisch. Then another night, it was 2:00 a.m., I was so scared. The car that was sliding [on the ice], it was night…
Hugh: That was after we had left Amelia Earhart… You’re right about that…
Tina: At 2:00 a.m.!!!
Hugh: I put the brakes on and we kept going…
Tina: …kept going…and stopped on the edge of a cliff! I said, “Madonna! Why did we come here??” The thing was we couldn’t understand each other…
Hugh: On the way up we stopped at a guest house. I asked if they had a room and she replied, “blah blah blah blah” [German]. Tina asked in Italian. “Blah, blah, blah.” Nuthin’. She reached out and took our hand and pulled us inside the house.
Tina: All wood, Sheila!
Hugh: We went up the stairs…
Me: Creak, creak, creak!
Tina: With a teeny tiny light! I had recently seen the movie “Psycho” and I thought, “This…” I didn’t take my clothes off!
Hugh: She didn’t take her clothes off!
Tina: No way!
Hugh: So you know…the first night we drove all night, the second night she wouldn’t take her clothes off and the third night…
Tina: It was the second night…
Me: So you stayed at a hospital??
Hugh: Yeah. It’s a hospital hotel.
Me: Really?
Hugh: Yeah. The hospital is for wounded people coming in, you know, and they gotta have some place for those people to stay.
Me: Like from the war? What wounded people?
Hugh: I don’t know! I just tell you it was Amelia Earhart was a hotel and the hospital was attached to it. And we stayed on the second floor, Titi’. And that night we were dancing and Tina was drinking beer.
Tina: I had two dark beers…
Me: Two GERMAN beers!
Hugh: Two big ones and pretty soon she’s staggering around on the floor out there and told her, “Tina I think we’d better go…”
Tina: Now he can tell anything because I don’t remember!
Hugh: She was! So we went upstairs and she went to sleep! Nothing that night!
Tina: The second night we consummated…
Hugh: It’s not true.
Me: So there’s some disagreement between the two parties.. [laughter]…
Ok, I need some background information! What is Tuesday’s with Tina??