The sleeveless garment, known locally as a gile', has of late been an object of obsession for both Dr. Caputo and Cagli Project director A. Ciofalo. The professorial pair recently undertook a long and strenuous drive to a number of area shopping malls, inluding the Auchan center in Belocchio Industrial Park and the Ipercoop center near Senegallia. At the Auchan, they were unrewarded; in line at a pizza restaurant in the Ipercoop food court, the duo had their facilitator Giovanni Caputo question a construction worker wearing a version of said vest. The man revealed that the vest was available downstairs at that very mall- but when Caputo & Ciofalo finally found the vests, they discovered, much to their displeasure, that neither the size nor the colors available were to their liking.
All that was to change, when, after a hot tip this morning from Mimi at Caffe Commercio, Caputo discovered a lovely six-pocketed vest to call his own in the middle of Cagli's Wednesday market. He whipped out a single twenty euro note and immediately donned the article of clothing. He then sat contentedly in the piazza, sipping a white wine and munching on potato chips, periodically counting the multitude of pockets available on his vest, while local Cagliese wearing similar vests nodded approvingly at him. While others in the market bought items on whims, or simply strolled around to people-watch, Dr. Caputo made his dreams come true.
His new vest contains seperate pockets for a cell phone, an I-Pod, harmonica, bait, tackle, and a change of socks.
