When we buy a mobile phone, we assume we also get coverage. However, there are many places in the world where mobile phone coverage is available even if there is no coverage. They said on TV that it was a town, I don’t remember in which part of Spain, where you can only talk from the cemetery by phone. Footage showed people wandering among the graves with their mobile phones raised to find the best headstone to mark. It wasn’t hard to consider the metaphorical nature of the situation. I wondered why the broadcast had chosen this place to demonstrate, and I deduced that the signal always appeared where the phone company wanted it to, not where it planned when it placed the pole. He could choose the local bar, parsonage, or church. But he had chosen the cemetery to force the neighbors, as they say, to talk from beyond.
That night, as I waited for sleep to come, I was assailed by the dream of living in a city of nearly ten thousand people with coverage only in the living room of my house. I calculated how much I could earn by charging fifty euro cents from neighbors who had to use their mobile phones. It was a lot of money. I imagined the line of callers outside my door and I saw myself selling the tickets, but I quickly changed my fantasy because I felt a little unimportant for turning this situation that luck had given me into a business. But since in my imagination I didn’t want the living room to be full of people all day, I decided that the most practical thing would be to keep it hidden like treasure at an archaeological site in your garden. will not be expropriated.
Soon, I innocently bought at the subway door a handmade bracelet, which I had always dreamed of, which, according to the saleswoman, was used to scare away spirits. He was wearing it and was losing the signal from the living room on my floor. It had never occurred to me to think of journalism as a spiritual manifestation. Even though I quickly removed the bracelet, the signal did not return. Already half asleep, I cursed myself for not taking financial advantage of the situation when I had the chance.