Roubles at the Orange Bar

I was walking through the mall with my sister and the heat was suffocating. For the crowded streets it was very difficult to walk quietly as we’d have liked to do, so we decided to look for a place to drink something. Not outside, but inside at the cool conditioning air.

At the end we enter in a nice place, the Orange Bar, which from the outside did not seem very full, fairly quiet and above all fresh. The small round tables with white tablecloths gave a clean and elegant impression, but there were no free tables, at least, not for two. As we were going out, a waiter makes us a sign to go in another little room that was hidden in the back.

There it was all full too! But while we were waiting there, a lady sitting with two other women at a table makes us sign to take their place. We immediately thought they wanted to leave and we accepted that curious invitation to sit. At the same time the woman pulls out a wallet ( we could see many banknotes) and it puts a little of these money on the table. She leaves them there and goes away, telling us with foreign accents the money was to pay the waiter and that they are in hurry.

What we saw on the table let us a little amazed: the first notes was 5 Euro, all others were… ROUBLES!
I had never seen such notes and I thought it was very strange that roubles were mixed with a 5 euro banknote. Also because I think that Italian don’t accept roubles!
We call immediately the waiter: this takes the money and (only God knows why!) thinks the money was for our account.
How could he think, we wanted to cheat him? We haven’t even ordered!
He sent us into the boss office! We’ve tried to explain what happened, but he says we have to follow him into "the head’s office."
Arriving at the office, from a chink of the door, we glimpse at the woman who had left roubles: she returned in that local to take something in the cloakroom.

Then we rise and run towards the woman with the suspicious waiter. The woman says something in a foreign language, moderate nerved. The waiter apologizes with us and wants to offer us something to drink, but, after what happened, we prefer to leave immediately this place. After a while we see a “carabinieri” car at the Orange Bar.