True or dirty trick.

Last night around l0:50 p.m. I was waiting for Vila Madalena bus to go home.

As the bus was taking long time to came, I was sitting on the bench.

While I was there, a young woman sat down by my side and said

_I want to sit by your side because you look a decent person.

I looked in amazement at her .She saw my amazed look and asked:

_ why are you looking at me like that? Did you know what does the word decent mean?

_Yes. I did. Then she said:

_Here there are a lot of youngs talking dumb.

And she asked me:

_Where do you come from?

_I am from Minas, I said. But I have been living here for fifty years.

So she said:

_I am from Parana. Have you been to Parana?

_Yes, I have.

_Have you been to Cascavel?

_Yes, I have, once. My nephew lives there and I went to visit him.

Then she shook my hands. I felt them very cold. And I saw her face

very pale, she looked tired, hungry and she raised ont eyebrow, she started talking:

_ The people from São Paulo are not nice. The good people who lives here are not from São Paulo. They are Northerm, North Easterm people and "baianos".

I went to Rio de Janeiro and I was robbed. I am only with the clothes of my body.

When she told me that, I looked her up and down. She was a good looking person. She was wearing a black skirt and a white blouse. Her

skirt was below the knees. While she was talking to me, she opened her handbag and took her documents to prove me that she had been

stolen: policial occurence, bus tickets and a letter writing in spanish. The she asked me:

_Do you speak spanish?

_No. I understand but I don't speak it.

Then she asked me to read the letter written in Spanish.

I only handled it, I took a glimse, I was very tired. I didn't want to read anything.

She told me she was married with a Caribean man. And he was in bus station. Then I said:

_Why are you here? Go with your husband.

_If I have been living in Brazil, it would have been very easy to solve the problem.

I told her I help love her but I couldn't because I didn't have money. I had only twenty reals but I had give to school in cooperate with Juny party and I showed her my empty coin case.

She still continued to talk anything but just arrived the bus and I took the bus back home without helping her.