- Come on, this one here!
- Noooo, he is too young, what could we do to him?
- Where, then? You choose!
- That one sitting on that bench.
- The one with the beard, or the one eating ice cream next to his grandmother?
- The one with the beard, of course.
No sooner said than done... and while these two viruses were planning their next vacation, one that was to last 14 days, the weather outside was scorching everyone's skin for real.
Vaping their way like that towards the fellow who was calmly reading his newspaper, without a mask since he was outdoors during the time slot that allowed it, all of a sudden a thought struck one of the viruses, the cleverer one to be precise, struck him a tad:
- Hey but why should we go and do a thing like this?
- Covidel, you ask questions that even you do not have the answer to.
- Coviduț, I was not asking expecting you to answer me, I was asking my "ownself".
- What does "ownself" mean? asks Coviduț.
- I do not know exactly, but a couple of months back I stayed at an intellectual, it was all inclusive, and one of them kept saying "revealed" words, among which "ownself", it sounded good.
- Me, I do not like to use words I do not know very well beforehand, answers Coviduț with an air of superiority.
- In other words, reflects Covidel, what I mean to say is that I do not understand where this order comes from, to go wreaking havoc.
- Well, if that were the case, if we stopped to think about all the orders imposed on us, we would no longer carry them out, we would "overstep" them.
- Overstep, you mean to say?!
- Whatever, come on, hurry up, because I will dry out here if I stay much longer in the open air, can you not see how hot it is? Are you going in or not?
- Hey, no!
- No, what? Coviduț jumps as if scalded.
- I am not going in! says Covidel firmly, there was a strength in his voice, stronger even than that plum brandy only my father-in-law makes, an attitude so sure of himself that his good brother could not slip into the airways of the one who was about to no longer exist in good health for very long.
- But why, in the end?
- Look, have you not had enough of doing harm? asks Coviduț, like a revolutionary.
- No! What else am I to do?
- Covidel, we have so many things to do, we could discover the world.
- And how better to discover the world than by getting inside it?!
- I have had enough! I simply cannot stand seeing the same old airways forever, lungs to blacken; I want something else from my life, I deserve more!
Covidel looked at his good friend a little sideways and did not quite understand why, but he too found it rather cool to change his life.
"What if we were happy?!" he said to himself.
- Come on! Let us do it, Coviduț!
- Where do we start? asks Covidel, convinced!
- Let us go on that phone there and see what people are commenting on Facebook.