enduring couples (then 21)
Staying at Suria, did not develop with satisfaction. All were problems.
the third month, finally appeared the Belgian engineer and in fact, was an incentive, as it was aware that my skills were made.
However, the thoroughness of the Belgian in the placement of each element, driving me mad.
not see the need to lose more than an hour each piece assembled level. I told him repeatedly that if parts were perfect, once the base is leveled necessarily other assemblies, would be leveled.
I do not know if my poor French, since he did not speak English, I do not understand, or would not understand.
the morning, I communicated very wrong with him, because he was more concerned to sketch the assemblies that thinking in French, but in the afternoons to catch the rhythm and I became chatty, which facilitated our harmony, until point that he dared to tell jokes about his new Citroën car 'shark', of recent manufacture. His main innovation was the incorporation of the hydraulic suspension with automatic height correction.
On the contrary, my car was a Ford T, of those who used the Untouchables of Elliot Ness in the days of Al Capone. I do not know if mocked or pitied my poor acquisition. Made a gesture with both hands, accompanied by facial expression of disgust, as if to say:
"Come on, man, this old thing, you have to throw it away.
he was right, since a few months later I had to get rid of him for good reason.
However, the fourth month of my time "Workshop Leader," My real occupation is over in Mina. Resumed the contempt with unfailing inactivity Head of the active owner.
In the meantime I learned that Teresa, practically from morning I left for work and I returned for lunch, I spent crying. I felt his loneliness, despite dealing with JC was back during pregnancy, which resumed its habitual tendency to vomiting.
Suria, far more than forty miles from the coast. Impossible from there to see the Mar. important factor for her. And his mother could not visit.
It hurt, knowing their sorrow. And piled cons for our stay.
also learned that, having completed my mission, as replacing the current Head of Workshops, would often drop at all levels of the mine underground. Did not give importance to that conscience, that it was not inconsequential.
happened that the day passed by TVE the Barca-Madrid, something special for the Catalans, the last miner who came to the surface, did not find the board into the control box. In contrast was the plate 172.
denounced the guard, jumping alarm. Called the address of 172. His wife said he had not yet arrived.
automatically moved several miners, going through the levels at which they worked this day. No trace, there was no one there. That gave them the light of what could have happened. Called to your Guilá inn.
Indeed, among the troupe of assistants to watch the football game, the mine was 172, with plate 112 in his pocket.
immediately presented to the mine, apologizing for his mistake and created unnecessary alarm.
plates were exchanged and with this precedent, the future control and did not realize the miners, but was the driver who in turn handed them their plates mining helmet marked with its own number. And out repeated reverse exchange. Remained improved control.
As a consequence of this error, for the two deceased was terrible! .... Were lost enthusiastic environment to Guilá home TV, with monstrous screams, celebrating all of Barca's goals.
And what was the last straw to detest follow Suria, was the unfortunate accident of the Director, where his wife and six children, crashed his vehicle against the ancient tree, guardian of the entrance to her villa.
he died from the crash, but from heart failure at that instant. All he could do before the end, was to reduce the speed of the car and so his family was unharmed.
This for me was final. My commitment to him was terminated. Return to Barcelona with my family, to resume and expand activities the office.
And with the second child in gestation, urgently needed to purchase a home with enough units.
to this emergency, I had the luck of being hit by the real estate scam SAICA.
go live in the village of Suria, mostly because I was on the way the second child, and offering a fixed wage suited us. The first problem
was not able to go directly to Suria which was where we were told that a house waiting for us even with a garden.
Callús went to stop until we could set up where we really belonged to the status of Carlos.
But ... when you've lived in a big city like Barcelona and it was then, having to leave that environment to get into a town of small size, I seem to remember that only consisted of a main road was the road, and a few houses on the sides, the truth is that I lost virtually the world over. The workplace was far away from home.
The husband was working long hours away from home by myself with the older child had not yet two years. I remember crying a lot. I saw one, not feeling well at all, since pregnancy, though not as heavy as the first, I also spent a few months throwing up. And JC, as I also was missing grandparents, and their mean language that asked me for them. Total
I can assure you that it is said that the fetus feels the mood of the mother, because the second child were also four kilos of baby crying as he left. Especially at night.
It may seem somewhat illogical, while living in Callús, I needed to have a link to follow me joining, as if umbilical cord that had left Barcelona, \u200b\u200bfamily, friends. And I think at that time for the umpteenth time I read "Gone With the Wind," because I realized that while reading, my body and my mind slipped for the first time I read it and saw the movie, both had left in me an excellent memory.
This nonsense, really getting that at least for a period of time, I isolated from everything around me because I was uncomfortable.
This book still keep it, is a wreck, but it may seem absurd at the time was a foothold and I have a special affection (for I am of the who love books, like people) To me, it has sentimental value, which over the years, I have explained to the children. They were astonished when told they could open the book to the page you wanted, then I stood and I could continue reading, following the thread of the narrative.
Ensure that the husband would not notice me too much grief for leaving the city. But there are things you can not hide much they try. We were so few hours together did not exactly improve my mood.
enduring couples (below 21 a).
There was no opposition to my termination of Mines. Just after my fifth month in the company, I had to sign a document on my honor, I promised not to access or deal with any other mining company in the Iberian Peninsula. As if hide secrets.
Years later, I learned that Solvay, sold in 1982 to the INI (Instituto Nacional de Industria), the factory. His farm was taken over by Fodim sa Exploitation of potassium salts in the Dead Sea in the open, was useless defray the high costs of underground mining. Most employees were forced retirement.
Had been there, my retirement stepped forward fifteen years.
Again in Barcelona flat urgently needed affordable but spacious. The second hand, normally not seduced me. Thanks to the announcement of the Real Estate SAICA, emerging colossus of the sale and rent in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwent to his office at the Diagonal, seeing the construction projects that had, all in solar Chaflanes of Islands Extension.
Very charming and affordable, both for its location, such as the floor surface and their distribution with three bedrooms and two bathrooms. I clarified that they were so cheap, as they are delivered to the buyer, a year after its purchase contract with interim contract that paid ten percent down, another ten in payments until the day of raising public deed Mortgage Banking with the rest.
no longer wanted me so much, having to wait a year. Tere enlighten as much in six months, but to decide I went to the lot where he said the building was constructed.
In one year, nothing. That served to commercial hook. It was a plot, in which a large sign announcing the acquisition by SAICA to build two hundred and fifty houses.
Ni cranes or machinery, or men at work. If you were sold with the promise of delivery for a year without even starting the foundation, was well aware of its impossibility. At least and that with luck would not be feasible in two years.
a disappointment for me and I had to put up with a second-hand housing.
At five years, the scandal broke. There were thousands of complaints to SAICA for flats sold and not delivered.
not even notice it was the site of the company. Had moved in recent years, the same banner to other chamfers, arguing customers unpalatable excuses, until they joined and submitted claim for fraud, and fanned by the media.
lawsuits and appeals, lasted until 1990, when the body was finally removed, with nominees in jail for a short time and cheated many without a catch or a quarter.
I had to acknowledge the urgency of delivery of Tere, thanks to which I was not among them.
For the new apartment, one more bank. This time, with mortgage Bco. Hispanic. I had to start an organization to control the functions reserved to each bank, with one or more accounts. The domestic economy, the mortgage and the name giving to the office.
Having ceased the Mining Academy and Suria, I was fully engaged in the multitude of work from developers.
with a former colleague, we help by joining the teams and making topographic surveys of farms in the project.
The miles a day doing our mission, would be essential that the vehicles were reliable. My FORD, responding perfectly to what was popularized at that time. "Manufacture Ordinary Repair Daily." And it was not detrimental to the brand, but quite the opposite. The car was stronger than imagined, but his age, had exceeded three decades.
Each trip, the round or back, I needed a repair, the most simple. Only cause delay and keep their hands smeared with grease and dirt, thence to the wheel, trim and pants.
But the pinnacle was in a tight, sloping, which despite not exceed forty miles per hour, the vertical bent losing so much that circulated on two wheels to balance them to her departure.
The curve was steep, so rugged terrain and the vehicle's response, the dynamics obeyed, but was not accustomed to circus acts inappropriate for a technical team.
This, along with that another time I lost a wheel in the middle of the road without possibility of stopping due to heavy traffic, I decided to follow the advice of the Belgian hit me in Suria.
Unsubscribe the car represented a tax expense and bureaucracy. The mechanic of my workshop, I suggested that for very little money he could sell it for scrap, or one of its customers. So I did and I learned, even my Ford, at the hands of a new owner circulated two years.
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