92) the unpleasant person Written by Rainer: rainer.lehrer@yahoo.com Learn languages (via Skype): Rainer: + 36 20 549 52 97 or + 36 20 334 79 74

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The unpleasant person Everyone had come in evening attire, only he was standing there in shorts, a T-shirt and slippers. Again, he demonstratively smoked his cigarette, then he walked hurriedly through the hall and closed the window with the words “we will all suffocate from the pollution coming from your cars”. When the aperitif was served, he unpacked his water pipe in order to displace the smell of alcohol and the perfume clouds with a bit of hashish around him. For some reason, there was a moment of silence and before it could get loud again, he lightly hit his mineral water glass with a spoon, because he did not drink alcohol, to attract the attention of everyone present and said in a raised voice: “I'm a communist agent!” He had actually thought of it as a joke, but when these people looked at him with big eyes and frightened faces, he was shocked because he had to find out that they still believed in those fairy tales. Many sit at the front, supposedly to see and hear best, but probably to be seen better by the actors, or to be particularly close if something unexpected happens. The richer people on the balconies only seem to want to hide and they are the most curious because they can see almost all the spectators from up there. Our unpleasant person was somewhere down in the middle, because the building had been built in such a way that the music could best unfold there in harmony. That evening, "Faust" by Gounod was performed. We know that Verdi, for example, wrote various arias for the female lead for a certain singer, Gounod very often did the same, and that makes it particularly difficult for another singer. When the singer's voice broke for the second time on the highest note, it slowly became too much for our unpleasant person. In addition, he could not hear Mephistopheles, one of the most difficult roles for deep male voices. For example, Mephistopheles is standing at the very back of the scene in the church, the orchestra in front of him, a part of the choir slightly in front of him to the left and right, circled by all four in the centre Margaret. Now, Mephistopheles has to sing the most frightening and deep background tune to make the act really terrifying. And now shortly before the end of the performance, our unpleasant man was waiting eagerly for this church scene coupled with a ballet. The dance seemed to be a new choreography, but actually fit in quite well with the whole act, underlining Margaret's critical condition. Mephistopheles stood in the background, a shadow hid his face, it was perfect. The only mistake was that Valerian sang the role of Mephistopheles in Mephistopheles’ clothing. After the act, as always, the participating singers stepped in front of the lowered curtain to receive the applause from the audience. And what did our unpleasant person see? It is laudable when someone is replaced because someone else does it better, but the fact that the latter then wants to reap the laurels of the better goes too far. Or maybe the theatre management didn't want the stupid audience to notice anything about the hoax? So our rebel got up in jeans and a bright red T-shirt and called out to what his throat could stand: “Fraud! I want to applaud Valerian, who sang Mephistopheles.” It was his luck that this is almost the end of the piece because there is no more pause in which he could have been removed. And the people around him were outraged, not because they had been betrayed by the theatre, but because he had exposed their lack of expertise. Ignorance is even more embarrassing in a suit. It's Saturday and our unpleasant person is going for a walk. Many men wash their cars in the public parking lots in front of their houses. In front of a new and particularly beautifully cleaned car, on which the possessor (I deliberately say not owner, because in most cases this is the bank until the debts have not been fully paid) is polishing the rims, our cynic stops and says: "Your wife will be jealous when she sees how tenderly you caress your car!" Back to list!

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