The life of a soldier is full of transfers. In each destination, new experiences are enriched. This story tells of a very trivial event that took place in the early years of the new century (and new millennium).
I had just arrived in a new location and I had to call a command to get information about a message with "interpretable" content. Being several hundred thousand euros, I think it is appropriate to clarify the exact terms of the problem, but I make the unpardonable mistake of making the last digit of the telephone number wrong.
I feel like answering
Colonel Tizio ".
Obviously I did not want to disturb such a high-ranking official, especially since the rumors that always circulate about his co-workers did not rate him in the specific administrative sector, since he was a very valid person in other more noble matters.
So I add ...
Mr. Colonel, excuse me, I'm Major Caio. I'm calling you from Command XXX. Excuse me, I was wrong, I wanted to talk to Marshal Pinco about it ...
But he interrupts me, intimating:
Let me talk to your Head of Service "
I add.. .
Mr. Colonel, if you want to tell Lieutenant Colonel Sempronius that you want to talk to him; however, for the purposes of this interview, if there may have been interference on the line that did not make them hear what I have just said, I would like to apologize again for the disturbance caused to the serenissima SV reiterating, and I apologize again, that I have erroneously Enter the last digit by dialing your august number instead of the one of the humble Marshal Pinco ..... "
Let me talk to Lieutenant Colonel Rossoverde
Colonel, I really regret not being able to meet with the speed that you would like your request. In vain I would be baffled, since Lieutenant Colonel Rossoverde was my head of service in the previous destination. However, while now he remains there, I, from about 15 days are in this new location, as I clearly explained at the start, on my part, and I apologize, of this, if the SV allows me , pleasant conversation.
Oh well, for this time pass.
Colonel, glad to have offered you the daily opportunity to exercise the Christian virtue of forgiveness, greetings with unchanged esteem and, if the SV has not had the opportunity to hear the banging of my heels, please give me the order to stay on rest, so that I can lower the receiver because in the most rigid martial position, I can not put the phone without facing the risk of having to - subsequently - go to the military hospital. With my most deferential greetings, subordinate greetings.
The conversation took place "in hands-free" in front of two marshals, who in hearing it began to believe in the things I was telling about the sclerotic nature of certain characters who had never left the ministry after the academy, accustomed to treating people - provided they had inferior seniority and maybe laugh, like students in the first year of the course. Between me and me I thought of a maxim that I recorded in huge letters in my brain "a vaffa and a damn do not deny anyone". Therefore, of that conversation, after a "damn" ", I remember a nice" vaffa ".
