~ No 9 / August 2001 / Page 5 ~	~ I'm green and I say it loud: I rub mint and I am proud" ~

		I'm sure that everybody, at least once in his lifetime, encountered some experience - what could I name it? enlightenment. It's when you want to obtain for the first time in your life your ID, driving license, when you want to change your passport or, maybe, to obtain from the Nepalese government the authorisation to climb up Kilimandjaro. It's our well-known bureaucracy. A lot of third-age women, crawling on the last 100 meters of their lives, with sharp tongues, eagle noses, moustaches, soda bottle glasses, howling at you, as if you're being guilty of disturbing them during the coffee served all day long. If you politely ask for information, the answer is "I don’t know", or "Ask at another desk", and more often, "Come back in the other shift, maybe my colleagues know better", or you won’t get an answer at all. What's more, they get pissed off and may close that tiny window in your face. Nobody is in charge if you want to make a complaint (holiday, off-duty, resigned or retired). All of them should have retired 50 years ago. So they are complaining about their low salaries and I advised them, if they are not satisfied with their job or/and salary, to quit. The answer was a piercing daze and a shut window. Now I realize which is the most popular occupation in Public Domain: not Gas Burning, nor Cutting leaves for the dogs, not even Mint Rubbing, because all of them suppose passion and dedication to work; but instead - CAT’S TAIL PULLING. (Radu Sova) Another spectacular mint rubbing wallpaper from !guana. This one really positions Romania on the map, so you will definitely enjoy it. Just download it and post it on your desktop. Page 5 of 6 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 >

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