ANGER / Rama: Why was the Doctor humiliated with the Tower? The one in the tower has grown!

2023-08-07 13:02:11Patronazhisti SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
ANGER / Rama: Why was the Doctor humiliated with the Tower? The one in the tower
I Gati starting the works for the construction of the tower

TIRANA - The first to see it was the car driver who washes the asphalt of the streets at 5 in the morning. The tall man with a pencil in his ear had meanwhile surrounded the perimeter of the flower garden with twine according to the plan, had started to dig the soil with a pickaxe and on the other hand, was giving orders to the dumdume: Llazi, unload those sacks !

Worried, the water truck driver thought of calling the police. "What is this long without permission, we remembered that the era of kiosks is over. I'll tell the cops to take it away even if it's rags!" But as he slowed down the car, he recognized Ustai. It was the prime minister!

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But the police came themselves, then the people of the municipality, then the building inspectorate. And they all turned back with their tails in the saddle. The news got the word: I Gjati had started to build the tower himself behind the national library, disgusted by the rumors and accusations that came like hail from all sides. No, he had given the construction permit for the tower to the Doctor's people, the Doctor's son, the Doctor himself... No, the prime minister's businessmen were partners with the Doctor's, no, Luli was upset that his brother-in-law had been taken out of the game...

The only one who had boasted about the giant tower project was Merua. But even he had mixed the compliment with some goat meat. "The tower as a tower is very beautiful," Merua said with the innocence that has always characterized her, "the problem is that Rama humiliated Berisha by giving him a construction permit!" This type of wording angered Te Gjat: No more, he said to himself, that is, all those who have built these 20 years in Tirana and throughout Albania, have felt very humiliated by me! I've already taken his neck, dammit!

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The tall man can endure a lot of things, because politics has made his skin thick, and the first signs impress him the most. But the idea that people might believe that his intention had been to humiliate the Doctor by giving him a tower 126 meters high unnerved him beyond measure.

"How do they not understand that the Doctor was born and raised in the tower! He has the tower as his home," he said to himself.

So he decided. To quell any conjecture and conspiracy theories, he would build the tower behind the library himself, working a little early in the morning, and then late in the afternoon, when he got off from government work. Maybe it will be a little late, he said to himself, but in the end, he will bring the government to lend a hand after the official schedule.

And so he did. He would call the project of the new tower "object for apartments and offices, with voluntary contribution". Ministers and other institutions that depend on the executive could also bring their staff during the weekends. Big deal because most were girls and women. "They even work better, they are more efficient," he thought, and remembered the movie "Captain": Hey, you need plaster, plaster, play your hands! Comrade Ropi, you are obstructing the work!  

He laughed and thought it wasn't a bad idea. Then, giving wings to his imagination, he decided that it would not be bad to put his foreign friends to work when they came to visit. For example, Commissioner Varhelyi, Sander Vucic, Borrell, and even Baba Rexhepin... In the end, he would ask Meloni to run from Rome to Tirana, to give him an idea about the arrangement.

After revisiting the whole scheme once more, he was satisfied and said to himself: "At least Lulashi was right about one thing, when he opened that tool shop in Kashar. Do not work with these pigs. Do it well, do it yourself!..."

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