And isn't that frustrating?
Given that kids in Italy learn English since kindergarten?
I'm so confused by this response. I'm going to be honest; I don't know why you're bringing that up.
Is it because you think the person making the meme isn't really Italian or made it for a non-Italian audience, and you're cluing me in about additional context regarding where you found this meme?
Or are you just being racist, because you think I'm a stupid American that doesn't know that most Western Europeans know English, so you feel the need to "dumb it down" for me?
Maybe you're right, it's just that it seems unlikely to me...
I was friends with a woman who actually has done things like this. She considered herself a "hopeless romantic." It always ended in disaster, but she never learned.
Never an airport, but she did contact, for example, hotel staff to get the room number of a cute guy that she saw.
Unfortunately, some people see stories like these and find them aspirational, which gets mistranslated in the real world. That's why it's sometimes important to treat them seriously and have genuine conversations about them, regardless of how bizarre they might seem.