Reminds me of an experience which I had in Bologna (Italy) some years ago.
I was returning back to the UK after a couple of weeks work in Italy and the Travel Department of the company which I worked for had booked me into a hotel in the centre of Bologna, opposite the railway station.
Why they had done this is beyond all reason, because VERY early in the morning I had to drive back out of town to go to the airport.
So, where to park the hire car overnight, as there was a big box of expensive stuff in the boot.
The hotel receptionist pointed me to a multistory car park where the hotel had an "arrangement" for reduced cost or free parking. So off I went there.
While I was discussing where to park with the attendant, in his very broken English, more broken than my Italian, it was obvious that he had the English words left and right swapped over in his head, and so we had a very jovial animated conversation in Italian and English with me explaining that left = sinstra and that right = destra.*
Once that was all sorted out, I asked him what time the parking was open in the morning, and it turned out to be something like 06:00, the time when I had to be at the airport to check in for the flight back to the UK.
So after all that, I still had to park the nice shiny hire car with its box of expensive bits out in the street which appeared to be the night time haunt of drug addicts and hookers. Luckily it survived unscathed.
The adventures with that car continued in the morning at the airport, I turned up at the car hire return place and it was shut, as in permanently closed and moved somewhere else! And no obvious signs as to where to go for the new car hire return place. I did eventually find it after driving around for a few minutes, and I was still in plenty of time to check in for the flight.
* Which brings us on the another thing which the Romans did for us.
The word dexterous, meaning capable with ones hands, is derived from the Latin for right or right handed.
Just another of my varied adventures with hire cars.
JimB