LOL, this thread is for me.
I was just in Veneto last month staying at a Palladian villa, and the drawing room was totally infested with ladybugs. They were everywhere! And I didn't feel ick or gross or whatever like I'd feel with cockroaches or other bugs. Or freaking out as in the case of spiders (any spider seen in my house is instantly dead if I can help it). I'm not superstitious but .... all my life I had a custom that if one landed on me I would not remove it. Just a habit left over from childhood. So one landed on me at the villa and I saw that it was on me in the car and it stayed on me for the next hour and a half when it finally fell while I was at a fried chicken restaurant (honestly the Colonel is juicier than Italian fried chicken....but at least the tempura-like veggies were tasty).
