What the FUCKIN' Blazes??!!
As I write there is the sound of gunshots in the streets. It's freakin' 12.30 lunchtime for freek's sake! I actually began this post with the following:
The United Nations Commission for Finding Things Out has found out that Brazil is: Corrupt, Violent and Racist. What? Really? How so??
Then I heard the shots and modified the post. Last Sunday night around 11pm there was a big gun battle, the worst I've heard since I've been here, must've gone on for a good 10 mins and I believe I counted 3 or 4 separate weapons from different directions. Perhaps today is the counter-attack. I took a peek out on the terrace and saw the usual bunch of skinny clowns rubber necking in some directions, then I saw one of them with a hand gun in his ...er hand (sorry!), it was a big 'un, quite possibly a Browning 9mil or whatever the equivalent is here; that's the first time I've actually seen one armed, I thought about taking a pic with my mobile but it wouldn't've captured anything at that distance.
I've had another surreal experience at the bank, my card was blocked because I haven't yet updated my details by proving my income. I mean I've been depositing between R$2000 and R$4000 every month without fail for the past six years and every year I have to prove that I earn a salary, I mean WHAT THE BLAZES?!
4 comments:
Change the bank, dear. Preferably to one where you have a freind, or a friend of a friend. I'm sure one of your students can refer you to a nice young female manager :)
waiting for the beer email,
beijo
I think all the banks have the same policy - i.e. treat you with suspicion unless you can deposit at least a million a month; the last surreal experience (click on it in the post) was at Banrisul.
not if you know the manager. that's how i got my oh-so-posh account at bank boston.
banrisul is the worst, i think. yesterday i transfered 50% of the pensão to the ex account's (at the same bank, mind you), and then i wanted to get the remaining 50% to deposit in my account. no chance! the computer said that i had already taken all the money allowed for that day! i mean, WHAT TH BLAZES?? i left the bank without a single real, while they kept everything!!!!
Helô's right.. unfortunately, here in Brazil, the thing is to always have someone who knows someone else inside that can help you.. and at X-mas etc you give this person a bottle of wine or some other gift. O.o
Just for the record: it's as if we didn't pay enormous rates and help those poor banks become THE wealthiest "business" in Brazil. We still gotta kiss their asses.. =/
Hugsss you two ! :-)
(what about our beer night? (moi with only a tiny amount of beer cause of the lithium..but still worth meeting for some laughs!)
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