7.5 kilometers, from darkness to light, the afternoon of the blackout: “Spain is a host country” | News from Madrid
Avoid unnecessary movements, they asked for the authorities. So many of us decided to leave the car at work and go home to walk. This is the news of the return home in the afternoon of the blackout huge. At 18:00, Alcalá Street at the height of the fifth of Los Molinos looked with the sun and a strange atmosphere, like a certain unreality. It is the longest road in Madrid, with 10.5 kilometers of extension. This walk, a little shorter, 7.5 kilometers, was full of people who commented on the theme of the day with more or less grace.
-The an elderly woman was a computer attack.
-Yes, yes, talk about Germany, Holland, Belgium … Everyone!- A guy replies
-What no, which was only in Spain and Portugal!- Tercia another
In a perspective, three people try to close the automatic door.
They are successful. Happiness.
-But now let’s see how we do you, “says a girl.
And what has remained inside stops laughing.
– Is there a school?- asks a uniform girl.
Two police officers on horseback and a guard of a car an ambulance stopped next to a truck. It could be a normal incidence, but people look at you thinking about blackout.
All road banks are busy. And each bank is a gathering. The theme is free.
-I think you have thrown a belly? -To we get a woman while the shirt goes up.
“A little yes-, he says.
The police regulate traffic in large crosses. In the smallest roads, it rules a sort of tacit agreement between pilots and pedestrians.
The scale does not work in the fruit shop:
“How do you give me for this?” He asks the shopkeeper.
(This is two kiwis, four tomatoes and two oranges)
-I know the girl replies.
“Well, I know what it is, but it’s knowing how much you would pay.
-I have easy, because I have only five euros.
“Then come, give me five euros.
Arriving at sales, an Ume Truck passes.
The M-30 which collapsed in a sense.
Two girls embrace each other. One gave a squad to the other.
-How is the center? -In boy asks for a taxi driver.
-Well, there are roads that look like Sunday and others, Christmas.
The embrace of the two girls of the rose is still hard.
-It is returning to light in the North and South, because they are giving us France and Morocco, a boy informs his companions as a bus marches.
A couple makes a reassuring tone:
-Qual we have two cans, eggs, potatoes, onions …
One girl asks another:
-Are do you know what it works and what not in a blackout?
Some bars have closed. Others offer service through a window. There are people on the terraces.
-Papá, this torch works by turning it, says a girl at the gates of a shop.
-Okay, replies.
-Where will you have today? -In Lady asks a young man close to the parish of Our Lady of Covadonga.
“Sure yes, but there is still half an hour, he replies.
In the square of Manuel Becerra, hundreds of people queue to get the bus. The snake ranking for not crossing others or with themselves.
-Why do we have to go to see the grandmother if there is a blackout? “Asks a girl.
-It because the grandmother is not electric, “replies her mother, causing the laughter of the people around her.
A lady recapitulates what happened during the morning:
-The Fogonazo was half and less than twelve, he says to two gentlemen.
At that moment, a suitcase asks the lady:
-to get to Méndez álvaro station?
-He, mother … comes out of his soul and begins to explain to him in a tone of compassion.
A man in a bank of Lee Nexus, by Harari.
-Joder, and you and I now also says it to another friend.
The main entrance of El Corte Inglés de Goya is full of people.
-This must be a remaining place or something- A man says.
“I think it’s because there is a shadow, your friend replies.
Each police or an ambulance siren stops time. People follow them as they remain in their visual field.
-And on tomorrow there is an exam! -Slama a girl in what seems to be the worst day of her life.
In the retirement environment, other languages begin to appear. Even the runners who go to the park.
-Oiga, go to the sidewalk, please, that there is no light, but rules, a local policeman tells a citizen in the dark.
After the Plaza de Cibeles, a teenager pulls his cell phone out and manages to call his father.
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-We give it back-, the mother clarifies.
-He are back are the data, adds the teenager, who does not want to reduce his emotion.
Some messages play. A girl shouts with joy when she sees she has a signal on the phone.
-Hey, that the iné are going to sleep at home. There are no trains for Valladolid-he explains to his interlocutor.
Arriving at the zero kilometer, two boys of about 40 years philosophers:
-If you think about it, Spain is a guest country. With all the casino there are and the people who drink canne-, it is reflected.
-And Thursday is one party-, adds the other.
