luni, 10 octombrie 2022

Permaflow 18, Ataraxia, Spire http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Permaflow 18, Ataraxia, Spire http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

 

Revenons a nos moutons, to come back to where we left on a tangent, some episodes ago, I was talking about the period of June, in particular the days of 13, 14, 15, when the miners came down to Bucharest, and we were driving around - without a license, but what is this act can still be prosecuted…well, there it is, as the emperor of Austria-Hungary was saying in the effervescent Amadeus, directed by marvelous Milos Forman, with Tom Hulce and Abraham Murray (the latter winning the Oscar, against the odds) http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-out-of-100-for-amadeus-on-realinis.html - the city in Stephen’s car, which was left as guarantee while he roamed the West.

 

So I left off, explaining who Stephen aka Stefan was, then talking about Claire, Linda and miss Romania for about two hundred and fifty six pages, but now I am back baby, and we continue with Stefan, who called someday, asked for money and I gave it to him, for I am such a fool and always have been (what was that I was saying with us being different after decades, or just the passing of enough time…well, it was not me, it was Proust http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/10/albertine-disparue-by-marcel-proust.html who came with the notion) but insisting that only one thousand needs to be spent for me.

The details are not clear after all this time, but then they are not relevant and let us say he had about twenty five hundred dollars from me, with the instruction that he is to use the 1,500 that he says he needs, then return it as promised, and then for me, he could buy a car with the maximum price tag of one thousand.

 

People were going to the West back then, to buy things that they had missed for so long, in the dark ages of communism, but also the first entrepreneurs would think of the trade and bring the goods for sale, to which we need to add a different category, that of Stefan, those who thought to attack on multiple fronts, why not get money from others, buy things to get back and then also trick the fools in the process.

After he left and said he comes back in a few days, weeks would pass and no word from our Stefan, and when he finally answered the phone, he started on another weeks’ long delaying tactic, saying he has the car, which is a wondrous vehicle (anticipating, it would be true, for an Audi, even twelve years old or more, would be the equivalent of an yacht in this age, there are plenty, but nobody on your block has one…oh, they do, well, so you are the rich guy who leaves comments with links to porn sites on my feed, goddamn it) and it just needs some work at the mechanic, for it got involved in a minor accident…

 

Minor incident my ass, the car had been totaled in Switzerland and our goodfella had bought it for 10 dollars, if they did not even pay for him to get it out as metal garbage and it spent long weeks in the mechanic shop because it need to be built back from the ashes, come to think of it, I should have called the baby Phoenix and use it thinking about the legend, but in the meantime, the Phoenix was absent…

 

Confronted with the prospect of a major loss, I had to take some action, for I was looking at a major confidence trick played by this made guy, who agreed to the terms presented above (and after all, he had initiated the ‘deal’ calling for a favor, he needs money and he would make a profit, so will return the investment and buy the one thousand or half that car and come in/with it) and now he says that he had spent all the money on the car, which was not in the terms we detailed, and then that vehicle is not in view…

It looked like he is lying one hundred percent, not just in the parts with the ‘oh, I thought you deserve a better car than just one worth one thousand’ or some such bulshit, and then I called in the special council of our own famiglia, with the consigliere – as in one of the top five best movies ever made The Godfather http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-godfather-written-by-francis-ford.html - and decided to visit our con man

 

I mean, if one tries to con you, you need to try and outfox him, or you get played all the way, isn’t it, and thus we took a ride to his place, with uncle Sandu, his friend Bono, cousin Adrian and Socrate, telling the goodfella that these individuals have claims on the money and he would need to talk to them from now on, which was not an intimidation, nothing on the lines of ‘you have such a nice place here, it would be such a shame if anything happens to it’, but still, it was enough to have us see the car in the mechanic’s  shop…

It was a disastrous situation, at least in the beginning, because the car had been totaled, probably bought by my friend, the crook, for zero dollars, maybe he had even been paid to take the junk out and dump garbage out of squeaky clean Switzerland (we know this is a thing even today, with advanced economies sending trash to ‘shit hole countries’ to quote the most disgusting fellow on earth, Trump…well, next to Putin and a few others) and we were looking at my 25 hundred bucks, all piled up and painted green…

 

It turns out that the vehicle would do some magic, eventually, for after it would be fixed, it worked as a…vacuum cleaner, this was the expression used back then, this car is a vacuum cleaner for…women, they are so enthused, exhilarated by the look of it, which said money, not so much inventive, Bauhaus design, that they would love to be invited to jump in, and they were, and then told to take off any inhibitions and clothes and a lot happened inside it, and then wherever the automobile would depose the driver and occupants…

There is at least a grim story about the events taking place and that would us going to Mamaia, where we were visiting some friends (I keep using the term, but it is very relative, for I would be a business partner of the fellow there, and after some initial enthusiasm, the clothes selling outfit would have us divided over the way it worked, which it actually didn’t so much…they were making some outfits out of wool or something and we were supposed to place, sell them in the capital, and they did not fly from the shelves…

 

 

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