The human relationship is one of the most complicated things of the modern world. The people, nowadays, are always very hurried and they never have time for a chat a little longer, more friend and less superficial, as the kisses, that badly play our faces, when we are greeted, without speaking in the monosyllabic sounds, as " hi ", OK ", tcháu " and thereabout it goes, with the increment of the modern youth's absurd slangs. It lacks dialogue and a more fraternal approach among the people.

Ricardo was a youth of your twenty and few years, that he was not included in that category, to people that don't dialogue, a lot on the contrary, he liked long " chats " and that, the at first, it was tolerated because he was very nice, of a jovial happiness and comical, but in the course of time he became boring and even annoying, as he said Leonardo " Badú ", a friend, that alerted him so that he changed of behavior, because the people avoided him because, it was unbearable to hear the whole time his confused histories, at least not allowing a minimum apart from their listeners. It is true, that the dialogue is fundamental, but it is only pleasant, when the people know how to hear and they are freed of the obsessive anxiety of speaking, without giving space to the listeners.

That deficiency of Ricardo, it was overcome by your immense kindness and detachment. He was always ready to help the lacking people, that of him needed, although that help always ended in an enormous confusion. It was as soon as in a beautiful spring afternoon, in the city of Santos (where he lived), serving as the friend's Luís Carlos guide, deficient visual, very known by his jovial way of facing the life, Ricardo told him funny histories and gesticulating a lot was enthusiastic so much, forgetting, that was leading a blind man for the street and this amusement was fatal, because he did with that the poor fellow goes to collide with a tree, hurting the face. Confused and fumbling in the emptiness, Luís Carlos, thwarted by the unexpected, he could not stop crying out: - " What is that, Ricardo? You're wanting to kill the poor and little blind?

Ricardo constrained by his amusement he was unmaked in excuses and Luís Carlos, in spite of the pain in the face, he ended up laughing good with the situation.

And the disorders didn't stop there. Fanatic fan from Santos F.C. he attended most of the games of the " Fish ", in the Vila Belmiro, but certain day had the chance of traveling with the " Torcida Jovem, (of the which the friend Leonardo " Badú " was one of the responsible) and he went to attend the game of Santos against the Boca Juniors, for the Liberators of America, in Morumbi. It was the first time in the life that Ricardo went to a stadium monumental, immense and he didn't fit of happiness, for the opportunity to attend such an important game and to know a such famous stadium of the city of São Paulo.

In the bus of the fan he spoke without stopping, nobody got one separated and the time all the bus was investigated it was already arriving, receiving as answer a sound choir: NO "!, of the passengers and of the own driver, impatient with so much perturbation. In the stadium, all hoped he will attend the game in silence, but surprisingly he was the whole time appreciating and commenting about the beauties of the architecture of the stadium, what provoked the irritation of the fan, because Santos were losing. Tonhão, a giant black man, of almost two meters of height, which play of drum of the band, that encouraged the games and in the hours of rest he was safety man, he didn't support the youth's architectural enchantment Ricardo and he caught him for the neck threatening to play him below bleachers:

- Are you want of taking a blow in the peak, ô my? Go to stop with that sinister chat, or else will you eat gram of the stadium? Tá Legal ?

Sells him terrified, Tonhão released him and he went to take care of the sound of the fan.

Unemployed has many years, the youth Ricardo dreamed in to arrange an employment and to get to accomplish the largest dream of his life: a " motorcycle ", of those very increased and to leave for the streets of Santos and São Vicente, his " powerful " one, in high-speed, with the free hair and fluttering, blown by the breeze of the sea.

He got the employment as janitor of a hospital in Santos and he adored his function, because she propitiated the opportunity to talk with the people. He was an excellent public relationships, a little exaggerating, perhaps for safety's patterns, but always a lot of usefullness. The confusions continued, when certain day, Baltazar, a member of the Torcida Jovem of Santos, that had been also in Morumbi in the fatidical game that the " Peixe " lost, took his wife to the hospital for an ultra-sonographic exam. He refused the doctor's offer to attend the exam, because he didn't like to see those exams, but he changed of idea when he saw Ricardo, in the entrance of the hospital. To leave of that moment Ricardo didn't release more the young poor foot. He was the whole time commenting that defeat of Santos. Baltazar not tolerating the sporting blockade, he fled frightened to take refuge in the room of the exam. Frightened, the doctor asked: - " Ué!? did you say that you didn't want to see the exam, but now you did change of idea! Why?

- It is "... I decided to give a look (and he looked afraid in the direction of the door, in the doubt that Ricardo will enter at any moment and to continue the boring and stressful chat).

They are these things that do Ricardo, an undesirable one, but as all and any human being, he also has his good side. He is a generous person, loosened, that a lot of times help the other ones, without asking anything in change. He was voluntary in an event in honor to the Child's " Day, where he acted as clown to encourage visual deficient children. He is an artist born, great actor. Working in the amateur theater, he acted in several plays in Santos and other cities without winning anything, only experience. That magnanimous heart overcomes all his confusions and for speaking in them, his last complication happened with dreamed her motorcycle, that he got to buy, thanks to the employment in the hospital. In the day of the purchase, Ricardo left happy for the streets of Santos, mounted in his " powerful " one, but... suddenly... he doesn't know how to say as, he almost ran over a deficient one in a wheel chair, selling sweets and candles in the middle of the cars, that they were stopped awaiting the light of traffic to open. When he saw him, he was almost on top of the chair, he deviated abruptly and he went to stop with the motorcycle in the sidewalk, being knocked down in the ground, in a spectacular tumble. He didn't have courage nor to ask excuses, he got up it arose in the motorcycle and he left, The fright served him of a great lesson. He ended up selling the motorcycle.

Curious, it is that good part of their confusions always involves deficients. The friend Luís Carlos (the blind man of the tree), now he is taking care of arranging him a new employment, because the one of the hospital didn't last a lot, because he was surprised writing poetries, during the file - perhaps done move by a sudden passion by receptionist Octacília, who knows? Artist's things. Nobody gets to understand him and he ended in the eye of the street, enlarging the unemployed of our country enormous line.

Now, Ricardo has a new dream... to buy a car! That as soon as arranges a new employment, of course. There yes, he can walk in the border of the beach flirting the " kitties " and to take advantage of the " ballads " of the night from Santos. Ah! As it is good to live!!

But... Care pedestrians! It is mainly the deficient ones, because our friend Ricardo comes with his powerful machine, doing new and certainly terrible and afflict confusions.

Note of the Author: I dedicate that story to my dear friend from São Vicente, Ricardo Ferreira, that inspired me to write this story.

Winning story with honors and published by Publishing Phoenix of São Paulo in May of 2007 in the Anthology of the VI Contest Great Names of the New Brazilian Literature, pages 58 to 61.

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