Unfortunately, here the more recent entries are always on the elderly, which now makes the connection a little ugly. But what the heck, I'm counting on the flexibility of my esteemed audience: Read it again by the first paragraph of the last entry, or perhaps you have it also still in the head. It's about my experiences with police (before the Cuba trip). Of this I also told Almut, my charming companion. We were now to our faithful little car, good for many of us scree slopes contributed to Havana on his return.
held in a trick of fate mocking us, I hardly had this peculiarity of my automotive career at the wheel, where the best-fitting Almut, a police officer. He pretended to want to see our papers, but was apparently just curious, because the driver had no papers it bothered him not in the least, and when I began to rummage in my opinion, he waved his thanks. "All right, nice day!" That was really the strangest police check was that I had ever experienced, but it was also my first ever. Later, however, told us one of the many hitchhikers, during which we the long journeys, took away time and again that regular inspections of the Cuban tourist police are not allowed. Yes, I had already heard several times, I remembered and realized I'm fine for the next time the was not long in coming: This time I was driving, and trilling whistled just past a railroad crossing there, and energetic, we were on the brink . waved I then stopped it, even though I had made me different, but was determined to let me take for a ride in any way by running up a Uniform. So I then looked as reserved, as the young police officer for driving license and car documents said, and held him right in front of unfriendly, "I just check no tourists "surprised and perhaps a little frightened, he looked at me - such a rebellious it was probably not yet encountered in his young career, dutifully and mechanically, he repeated:"... I need your license and registration papers, "I handed them out of it. At that moment still a senior police officer to appear, a manager who chewed still on his lunch, and pretty upset worked. Yet another bird, I muttered to Almut, as it dawned on me slowly that I might actually . broken a traffic rule, the older cop had mixed namely, now angry, "So, you speak our language? Since the front of the railway crossing is a huge "Stop" - sign, and you just drive over it without batting an eyelid? Do you want the train to run over "Wow, since it rained suddenly findings: Said train was in fact turned me into a kind of running gag between Almut and because we constantly exceed their paths ran over and it never - even up?. . the end of the trip - to face were crossing barriers do not exist in Cuba, would be in the eternity intervals between two trains run on the same site huge waste But every vehicle must stop at every railroad crossing, the driver make sure that the left and right. anrollt no train, and only then he must go. So the stupid in the partially deserted Cuban prairie looks like it. And I had violated this rule (though not on purpose, I simply had not noticed)! And shown me not a bit reasonable, no, instead you could accuse me, even insulting! Well, I was still a bit queasy. I had never had trouble with police, and now I maneuvered the two of us straight into the grotesque trouble. I immediately turned around to inspect, "Oh, uh, yes, I'm sorry, I did not even noticed, oh God, I'm sorry!" - "Do it again, and you pay three times the punishment," the senior police officer informed me strictly but now savoring a bit of his official authority, and - let us go. Phew. Relieved, I thought of as more than the regulations at every level crossing, looked right and left and then went veeery slowly over the tracks - apparently not slow enough, for about twenty minutes, after last-described incident, we stopped again, this time from a mean old man with a mustache, the three looked pretty grim. He immediately asked for my passport - suspicious, but I was confused. "Have I done something wrong?" I asked hesitantly, as he rumschnüffelte in my personal details. "Wrong?", She said with a petrified look, "however." No explanation. My Know told me that I had nothing this time been guilty, but after the last episode I had the courage to leave for now. He left me floundering, I was approached by his first name, he had cleverly read in my passport, visibly enjoyed my uncertainty, however, soon mingled with anger, and said to my demand, nothing was in order. And then, suddenly, he gave me back my passport, shook us both one after the hand and said in a smug smile: "Happy Mother's Day, the ladies, and a good trip!" So please, fate, I thought to myself. Is not that a bit of theatrical sign, to remind me that my mother still did not call today? Phone calls are expensive in Cuba!
And that was not our last experience with the uniformed men there in the tropical heat. There was still the matter of the backpack, but before I tell this, I must unfortunately another section and thus from the two-a three-part series. You know: Anticipation is the greatest of its kind!