 phrase about the trains being on time has a bad connotation about it yeah that's something that happened in our history that would have been during world war ii i think you mentioned that's right mussolini he was a dictator the big thing he wanted to do was make sure that your trains ran on time and they really didn't i've read more about this in italy was bad to have trains off schedule and they were so codependent on these trains by the time they train get there they've already