EDITORIAL

Blaming the Heat!

The heat from the summer season period determined the Romanians to choose the Seaside as their vacations places and leaves from work destination. Thinking about the almost chilly days that they could spend on the shore of the Black Sea, at the pleasant breeze over the resorts, about the foamed waves that are caressing its heated body it was sufficient to determine everyone to wish anything but to get on the wagons and to arrive to the seaside. Either they booked tickets from the agencies a few days earlier, or they did not, everyone was anxious to be rolling…
And, there are our Romanians arrived in the railway station. The crowds from the ticketing counters and from the platforms make those who succeeded to buy the tickets in advance to breath relived and to go to the train, while the blind persons are forced to stay in the huge lines at the ticketing counters. But there is no difference? In spite of the unpleasant events, the first step is already made!
There they are in the train! Heat …..Crowd…… Nerves …..Tiredness…… Gradually, everyone becomes sensitive to the neighbors' comments or behavior, they are even disturbed by the "neighbor's" movement……All of a sudden, the man remembers that he paid the ticket and he has no appropriate conditions provided for a normal travel. Only thinking of the few days that he will spend on the Seaside calms him down for a while and helps him overpass the moment. And still, the impatience to reach faster to the destination makes him nervous again: the irritation and the agitation grow. In such moments, it is sufficient that a passenger expresses his dissatisfaction, and everything starts. Everyone has something to comment against those who are responsible for the provision of a pleasant and rapid travel on the railway: "There is a mess in the compartment!", "What an agglomeration on the corridor!", "Besides the heat and the agglomeration the trains circulate with reduced speed!", "Why are we staying so long in Constanta?", and many other remarks like these.
There is a "rule" for us, the Romanians, when something goes wrong let's blame the authorities. Everything that goes wrong in this country has only one guilty entity: the State. In this case, of our passenger, the Railway is to be blamed. Still, I wonder: why are the railway personnel responsible (in passengers' vision) for the fact that a "more upset" passenger destroys the upholsters of the armchair from the compartment and starts to tear it apart, on certain sections, there are speed restrictions, or the big flux of passengers implies delays in train departure with three or four minutes, or …..
Indeed, in everyone's conception, it is easier to place randomly the responsibility for some unthinking actions performed by a nobody. In our case, it is placed, with reasons or not, on the railway employee. For some of them, the railway personnel is to blame that the temperature inside the rail reaches up to 60 degrees; but the rail dilatation cannot be avoided by human will! He is still to be blamed for the rehabilitation works started on the railway network that makes the traffic difficult; but these works that are very inconvenient presently, in a year or two will also offer to him, the passenger, the possibility to reach the destination with one hour earlier in comparison to the present time! But the poor rail man is blamed for so many things, even for causes that are not up to him, and that's because the passengers do not take advantage of the appropriate comfort .....
But I wonder, when everything goes right, when they feel good, the same passenger has he a good thought for the rail man? I do not know why, but I really doubt that.

Oana Bran