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There are advantages to being broke, hot and waiting for your friends in a lobby, if said lobby has wireless.
Thus you will be able to learn that after last nights hard partying and very early morning drunken blogging, I could not sleep for more than two or three hours. I somehow managed to pass my time in a pleasant manner until it was check out time, sixteen minutes ago.
Then, as I was starting my laptop getting ready to rant about my hangover slash insomnia, anonymous caller tried to pull scam on me. I am just done checking with the Orange customer service, who have confirmed I am correct.
Here it is. May it be of use to brothers and sisters out there on the interwebs, reading this blog.
First you will receive an anonymous message signed 411 info, which is in fact Orange customer care 
Hit reply and there will be no number… first sign.
The message will congratulate you and say something along the lines “you lucky winner” have been chosen to be the recipient of euro 10,000 or, possibly, other fabulously exciting prize, and, you are to be contacted by one of their operators. Sign number two: fabulous prize. Sign number three: in Romanian the original text goes “contactat(a)”, little gender insecurity I call it.
Sometime after you will be called from a private number. The operator will introduce herself and explain about the scheme. Then she will ask your personal data to be introduced in their database. Don’t give it, instead try asking some questions. The operator will get unprofessionally annoyed and skate on thin ice. Sign number four: untrained voice. Sign number five: operator occasionally reads a “standard” text. Sign number six: no shared database between the company and the subcontracted consultant company?! hm. Sign number seven: the taadaaaaa voice when announcing “special lucky price” for “special lucky winneeeer!”.
At this point I was really like hello, wake up, smell the coffee, what do you take me for?! So I have asked for her name again. Which she avoided by saying it’s unimportant. Now that really gave it away. Thank you for wasting minutes of my life, I am no “special extra lucky winner”, I am too old of a spam trained fox by now to get excited by such looser trinkets. Be warned.
But it makes for a fairly interesting post, wouldn’t you agree?
Find the original text message from scam company at comments.
Have you been partying all night? Have you been avoiding karaoke? Have you been sleeping in the leather seats of the local pole-bar? Have you been gushing over hopelessly straight friend’s friend? Have you been having Micky Dee’s after countless wanderings in the morning chill?
What to do next?
Breakfast, of course! While the “pensiune” supervisor is sweeping the floors and your friends are gone to sleep (!? presumably!), you make good use of this early breakfast facility and wireless internet in the sound of ambient Gotan Project. Then plan for an early retirement. Until noonish.
After riding the chain saw in
Sapanta’s
Merry Cemetery, Little Red Riding Hood and the gang were headed to
Jeebus country. This is how
Romerican, like
Stephen the Great, named it. The road was occasionally full of horse shit and stuff. The ugly part occurred in
Elbonia, where, because of masive cracks in the whole, my friend had to reveal his own butt crack, major plumber case! and flat tire changing skills. But all is well, when it ends well. Salutations from Bicaz, to where I have been entertained by
Romerican’s fake Chinese numbuhwoan accent.
What can make my day sometimes. The simple things in life!
Yeah, don’t you miss it on Sunday at 7 pm. See you there!
LATER EDIT: By a strange play of faith, I have managed to take pictures from the second half of the first performance, because I was late, and of the first half during the second performance, because I was out of memory space. You can tell the light and perspectives are different for each of the two performances. Furthermore, I have uploaded the second batch in reverse. So what you see takes you back to the “beginning”. Because it’s not over until the fat lady sings and there was none!
With the highest number of owners walking their cameras, there was also room for another very notable event in Parcul Tineretului today, and that was the
Strange Fruit performance in Bucharest. And what a performance it was! I am planning to see it again tomorrow.
In debt, no cash, undecided, and on the brink of vacation plans. Last minute plans. Ideal combination, wouldn’t you agree.
“Time sure flies when you’re young and jerking off.”
The Basketball Diaries
“Tina Modotti: I don’t believe in marriage.
[crowd laughs]
Tina Modotti: No, I really don’t. Let me be clear about that. I think at worst it’s a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women in the house and out of the way, wrapped up in the guise of tradition and conservative religious nonsense. At best, it’s a happy delusion - these two people who truly love each other and have no idea how truly miserable they’re about to make each other. But, but, when two people know that, and they decide with eyes wide open to face each other and get married anyway, then I don’t think it’s conservative or delusional. I think it’s radical and courageous and very romantic. To Diego and Frida.”
Frida (via http://imdb.com/title/tt0120679/quotes)
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