THE STORY OF THE HILARIOUS SHOVEL AND THE SAD VIDEOGAME (because fifty metres, two boys, one shovel and one videogame could explain how this city is insane)

"If you have diamonds, you will not get anything from them. If you have muck, you will get flowers" Fabrizio De André

The hilarious shovel - Walking on Kalamataturk Avenue (Banani), there are a man and a little boy (one metre and twenty), both of them with a shovel in the hands. They are working to collect the street rubbish (or better, something that looks like rubbish, it is a black and evil-smelling pulp that often is burning and you can recognize only the yellow of banana skins). They are putting this pulp inside a big container (an old-iron box, 6metresX2metres). There is the little boy in trouble with his shovel that seems not working properly, he tries and tries again, he stops and starts laughing. Also the man starts laughing and -swapping the shovels- he takes the shovel of the little boy. After the funny break, the little boy and the new shovel are now able to "work". It's sunday (for them, our monday), there should be the school for a one-metre-and-twenty boy, but there is a shovel for him.

The sad videogame - Still walking on Kalamataturk Avenue, fifty metres after the man, the boy, the good shovel and the bad one, there are a black Toyota SUV, parked half on the sidewalk, half on the road, and a family: dad, mom and son. The dad runs quickly to the DVD shop without waiting the wife, the mom gets out of the SUV slowly with her american jeans without waiting the son because -in the meantime- there is the driver who opens the door to the little boy (one metre and twenty). Also the boy wears american jeans, and also the boy doesn't care about the dad, the mom, the driver, the world, because he is busy with his new-metallic-handheld-game-console. Thus, following the line of the quickly dad and the slowly mom, the little boy enters in the shop without taking the eyes off the videogame. It's always sunday, there should be the school for a one-metre-and-twenty boy, but there is a videogame for him.

The moral of the story - If you are a one-metre-and-twenty boy, you should be at school in the morning but if you live in Dhaka, you have a good excuse. So, it is not important if you are working with a shovel or playing a videogame, the main thing is how you are working and how you are playing: old-iron and rubbish make you happy, metallic-case and jeans make you sad.