It is the Spanish noon (2:00pm) and the news brake loose on the TV set. I am at my niece's restaurant. Everybody is having lunch, me included... Well, almost everybody! The teaching team from across the street are just occupying space (3 tables to be exact) having one coffee for 6 and 20 cigarettes a head! Just having one cigarette after the other and another one in between.
I don't normally watch TV, the news specially, and what I am seeing today on the screen... it only confirms my aversion to the stupid box! The anchorman goes on - A faculty teacher pays two strippers to perform in front of his class... The Full Monty! - Gangrened limbs are bluntly displayed for our viewing pleasure as though it was a chef's new creation... they repeat the scene 15 minutes later. - The sex market is exposed... for, only, the million and something time this year!!!... - A traffic control camera catches the drama as a car wrecks smashing into a bus stop and pinning two persons against the wall like butterflies on a canvas. The driver is got on camera as he runs away from the grotesque scene, while passersby rush in to help the two moribund, fallen lepidopterans shaking life away from their broken wings.
A commercial break falls like a godsend. I think they are advertising a new Buick. But, turns out been a... Jaguar??? What happened to elegance?... Probably ended up suffering the same fate as good taste and decorum in the news.
Oh, well! It is time now for dessert.
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