was removed from an evening's worth, the groom verija, when suddenly the phone rang.
- Is the office of Dr. Cardenas? - Asked a nasal voice across the line.
"No, this is a private home.
"Sorry, wrong number," the voice said curtly and hung up.
"" Wrong number "? What is wrong my number? To my knowledge, has never been wrong, who wants to call, then dials and connects me without error. If someone made a mistake in this episode is undoubtedly the aforementioned patient's doctor, not my phone, let alone, this key punchers.
But so goes life. And at risk of being called "semantic-materialistic", I must add that such talk is very revealing of a culture that tries to avoid responsibility. "I'm not mistaken, was the phone," someone says to justify his mistake, made sure to dial numbers with the same finger used to picking their nose. It would be impossible once we heard the following: "Sorry, wrong number me." Impossible, but it would be correct because, again, the numbers do not even have the possibility of error.
same hear when talking about the victim of a stray bullet: "I was in the wrong place." In these cases, involving the loss of a life-or at least a serious attack on his integrity " ;, the contradiction is even higher. A gunman, a police officer, military or simple blind bandit shoots and, therefore, falls killed a young man. Ah! But in that case, we are told, was not the aggressor causing the accident, the place was "wrong." Damn place! Clausúrenlo to let this be a lesson and not make mistakes again, killing innocent people.
Speaking of accidents, one that occurred this morning confirms the twisted sense of humor that has the history (yes, capitalized). Seventy years ago, in 1940, the elite of the Polish army was destroyed on Stalin's orders. The bulk of these murders was committed in the forest of Katyn, in western Russia, near the city of Smolensk. When the German army in its retreat, she discovered the carnage, the Soviets quickly accused the Nazis of having committed. This version remained until the glasnost of Mikhail Gorbachev allowed it to recognize Soviet responsibility. (Yes, we could say the 22,000 Polish officers were not only in the "wrong place", but also in the "wrong time." Who happens to be a Polish officer in times of Stalin?). And today, for the first time, was to make a tribute to the victims, so official that he would join the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
But we talked about the quirky sense of humor of History: wanting to land at Smolensk, the plane carrying President Lech Kacsynski, among other senior officials, the maneuver failed, crashed and killed all occupants accident. Among these, besides the Polish president, was the director of central bank the chief of staff, relatives of victims of the Katyn massacre and many intellectuals. "It is a cursed place," said former President Aleksandr Kwasniewski. Luckily no one said it was "misplaced."
