A man comes out of the house to go to work in the morning and finds his car gone, stolen. The next day, however, his car is back in place with a note inside, apologizing for the emergency which made it necessary to temporarily borrow the man's car. To make amends, the unknown 'thief' has left opera tickets for a performance at San Carlo theatre. Tickets for the whole family. Man takes family to opera.
Man comes back home.
Man finds his house cleaned out, an easy task for the thieves, since they were absolutely sure that no one would be at home. They show up in furs and finery and Mercedes', BMWs and Maseratis. Naturally, when you go into the opera house, you park your big expensive car in the lot adjacent to the theater and give the keys to the 'white cap', the parking attendant, a trusted and good-natured underling living out his twilight years moving other people's nice wheels in and out of tight parking spots. A few minutes into the performance, one of those gigantic double-ramped trucks rolls up and, with the help of the attendant and his splendid collection of keys to other people's cars, loads up twenty or so of the shiniest and most marketable ones, and roars off. Eye witnesses claim they thought the cars were being towed away for parking violations.