Bunissima

Lucrurile se petrec in felul urmator. Pentru ca ai atatea optiuni minunate de a te distra, poti sa faci cam urmatoarele lucruri intr-o duminica. Poti sa mergi la lacul inghetat, un fel de wanna-be patinoar pentru moment.

Si admiri talentele de a cadea ale altora.

Te holbezi la turta dulce si acadele, in timp ce asculti colinde. Ai zice ca mai e Craciun inca.

Daca vrei sa te odihnesti… poti sa mai astepti pana la primavara.

Oh, americanii sunt aici!

Si Mos Craciun se apara de intemperii…

Si daca te plictisesti rau te poti duce in Las Vegas.

I know a person that has an obsession. It is not such a harmful one, especially for her, since she does not realise she has it. It’s rather annoying for others.

But lemme introduce you to a whole new world first. If you didn’t know yet, there are demons and angels in this world, and when things go bad you can bet that there is a devil around, grinning tar through his teeth at your infortune. And then, angels come in the scene to straighten it all out for you. It’s like the good guys and the bad guys are fighting for your wonderful self, and you just have to sit quiet and pray.

I for one, think the demons can be some pretty groovy dudes. I mean, I can already imagine them, when someone is fighting, that they are wagging their pointed tails back and forth like felines, resting on their trident with their left arm, and chewing on hot coals as if it was popcorn, making comments at each other about who is going to win. I don’t know what the angels do. I don’t have that much imagination.

When somebody starts to argue, when they are swearing, even when they are sick, this person I know (let’s call it P.) feels like god asks to be given some holy water or some incense, holy incense, frickinsense or whatever you call it. Oh, I guess I meant franckincense.

I know for a fact that if I want to challenge her to duel with holy water against the demon, I just have to say something that contains the simplest form of demon in it, like if I say “ce dracu” sau “ce mama dracu,” wich basically means “what the devil,” P will become personally offended and almost feeling like a sinner for only hearing this word.Then comes the holy water around the house and maybe some incense, so my demons go away.

But nothing can rise up to the devilish offense of finding some chewed gum stuck on your door. Purposefully!! It means, no doubt, someone has an agreement with the devil to do some bad things to you. Therefore you can proceed to vigourously irrigate the hallway with holy water to exorcise the blasphemy within the entire block. There you go, little devils, you can’t touch me now!

Sometimes around here things are not quite so perfect. I mean, it’s a truism, but nowhere things are really perfect. Let alone the degree of comparison for “perfect”, wich originally should have none. But, let’s not get myself tangled in the more-or-less-known traps of the language.

So, a slice of truth from these parts is that life is not always lived by the patterns already settled by society. Let’s take for instance a Police building, where not only do the employees accomplish their sacred duties, but they also do some other sacred duties, outside-of-the-job. The main one is actually living there, because the police looks like an inhabited house by normal people also.

But now, looking better at the details as a good trained citizen should, I am beggining to have serious doubts. I mean, why in the world do they need two satellite dishes? I think it’s an undercover top secret activity and they use the Godforsakenplace village to do this. I am sure the satellite dishes cover each other as well. If one is not getting the cartoon channel, the other one will.

As insightfully requested in the previous post by a reader, I decided to make this post the second part of the dog story started before. So, briefly, here you go.

I was visiting Dragasani one day, a city nearby Valcea. I was just trying to make the time pass. And there he was, the little black dog. After few more steps, I have seen all his family waiting for him in front of the bank. I did not took take a photo of the bank itself, because I am not advertising.

I think that lately, in order to save some money, banks hire unsheltered dogs as guardians.