The Guy That Runs My Corner Shop!

The guy that runs my corner shop, he’s the type of guy who always likes to talk and doesn’t expect a response; if you try to say anything, he’ll talk over you! So as a result, you know that when he starts talking to you it’s gonna be a monologue, a one way discourse on his terms; the monologue will end when he choses it to and your only role in this “act” is to nod and look like you’re listening. I don’t mind doing this from time to time but when I pop in on the way home from work to buy my Evian, Soya yoghurts and fruit, it’s a bit more ‘pesante’ if you get my drift! Anyways, he choses tonight, the night I went to see Pedro Almodovar’s movie “Volver”, to embark on one of the dreaded monologues, informing me of his ability to foresee the deaths of his customers in his dreams!!!

 

Ok, “Volver” in a way is about the emotions between the women in a family, but it also covers the superstitions that are often relished in “L’Espana Profunda”, one being that the dead coming back to haunt the living... So when the guy that runs my corner shop starts going on about predicting the deaths of his clients in his dreams I must say, I felt slightly freaked out and I believed everything he said... Four times he has predicted the death of someone and every single time, “God” (or Gilgamesh) is in his dreams, forcing him to be a witness to the deaths. In his dreams, he’s confused as his first thought is that it is his own death he is witnessing. But that is impossible, humans cannot dream of their own deaths.

 

Anyways, I asked him to please let me know if I ever appeared in his dreams!