ENGLISH VERSION:
THE DICTADURE...WAS OVER 20 YEARS AGO OR NOT??
I have a hilarious tale to tell, something that reaches the limit between funny and tragic.
I was happy and glad working at the Internacional airport of Rio making a survey with a tourist from Sweetzeland. By the end of the survey he asked me, from which political party our president belongs in and ALSO asked me: WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT ROSINHA?? Actually what he intended to say was ROCINHA and not ROSINHA. The S alone on a word sound as a Z in portuguese and the C in the word ROCINHA sound as an S. As soon as the guy TRYED to speak portuguese to me and got a very big accent, so I understood he was talking about the bitch of the state of Rio governor ROSINHA,who won the elections in the name of GOD manipulating the poor people from the protstant church, AND NOT ROCINHA (The biggest gueto from LATIN AMERICA, more known as favela, located in the south zone of Rio city). I just asnwered very directally the question he did as :I HATE HER!!!. Sitted behind me, a brazilian citzen, scream very loud- IN ENGLISH: EXCUSE ME, HOW CAN YOU SAY YOU HATE SOMEONE YOU DON´T KNOW??
Very gently and elegant I turned myself to him and said IN VERY CLEAR PORTUGUESE: I GOT THE RIGHT TO GET MY OWN CONCLUSIONS REGARDING HER, DON´T I? DO WE LIVE ON A DEMOCRACY OR NOT? BESIDES THAT SIR, IF YOU ARE AN SPY WHO WORKS FOR DOPS(an institution that existed on the dictadure time to control the propagandas and people against the military governament), YOU ARE 20 YEARS LATE, AND MORE..IF YOU HAD A MOTHER WHO WORKS FOR THE STATE GOVERNOR FOR 30 YEAR AND WIN A MISERY AS MONTLY INCOME, YOU WOULD SAY THE SAME!!! At that time, the ones around, all looked straight to me, I felt a little ashamed at the moment but then I just stood my head up and went ahead with what I was doing.
When I got close to an argentinian tourist for another survey, the same guy came behind me saying on a totally RIDICULOUs way, that I was MANIPULATING the tourists answers, he asked my name and for which company I was working for, I said very proud my name with all the letters and silables: C-A-R-O-L-I-N-A F-U-Z-E-R , sir, and I work for FIPE AND EMBRATUR. My survey nothing has to do with politics , but tourism. The tourist made me a question and I gave him my answer based in what I understood and I repeat to you sir: I HATE OUR STATE GOVERNAMENT, MRS. ROSINHA!!! Ask then to the tourists why do they complain so much, sir!!!
The idiot wanted to argue and fight with me and catching the whole airport terminal attention, when sudenlly, the more than 1.80 m tall,strong tourist from Swetzeland, stood up and said to the mustache, short old man: SIR, I WAS TALKING TO HER AND YOU DON´T MIND YOUR OWN BUSSINESS, IF YOU GOT A PROBLEM THEN COME AND TALK TO ME, LEAVE THE GIRL ALONE AND LET HER WORK IN PEACE, I ASKED HER OPINION, NOT YOURS!!! AHAHAHA that jerk saw the size of the guy, and came back to sit on his chair, tryed to whisper some words in vain and left me alone.
I kept doing what I was doing, I did the survey with the arngentinian, the poor guy was understanding nothing , and I explained to him, after all was over, I said THANK YOU to the swiss tourist: Thank you very much, sir. I can bet that jerk works for her and it is sure a partner in crime when she steals money away from the state of Rio. He smilled and said that if all the brazilian youth could argue to him on the same level as I did, we would have a better country, because we live on a beautifull big country, full of nice people and beautifull nature and bla bla bla... this tourist small talk we all know already.
Deep inside, I don´t believe we would have a better country if everyone was like me, sometimes, my way of contesting everything could put our country into a war. Or is it me who it is always on a constant war with myself???