Summer in the city

It can get a little crazy at times... Life in this God forsaken city, I mean. And I do not mean good crazy. It can get pathological, "here's-the-white-padded-van-you-ordered" crazy. Can you really blame the people, though? Or is it just the blinding heat, the dust, the sweat and the lack of parking spaces? Can you really blame people here for being crazy, after a lifetime of scorching sun beating down on their heads, boiling their brains into mushy soup?

Traffic is legendary already, so I will not dwell on it. Aggression is brought to new heights, whether in language, looks or behaviour. Drowsiness is something that only started to affect me this year. I thought I was stronger than that, but green is not always strong ;).

I think stupidity is also bolstered by the high temperature. Take this morning, for instance: I was stuck in Electrica for 3 hours, doing absolutely nothing but camping in front of offices so, eventually, I would be sent to a different camping site, just to be told by idiots increasing in rank and function that in order to get a quote on what one of my clients owes to the mammoth that employs the idiots, I needed a power of attorney. Lower ranking idiots accepted a regular POA, higher ranking idiots wanted a legalized POA. JUST TO FIND OUT WHAT MY CLIENT OWED THE IDIOT EMPLOYMENT COMPANY!

So I gave up, for fear that had I continued, the even higher ranking morons would probably ask my client to show up in person and have a DNA test done in front of a notary to prove that it was really him who was asking the information and, probably, provide 534 kilos of documents to prove same and also comparative studies done on his pictures as a child and his more recent pictures, for consistency.

Secrecy seems to be the word of the day in Electrica or whatever it's called these days. But I know better. I know that the real word of the day is "going-beyond-the-call-of-duty": not revealing client info to people is one thing. Not revealing client info to the CLIENT is a totally different level of secrecy.

Or maybe they just don't trust lawyers.