JUST LIKE THAT
The place was big, a large popular restaurant in the small town where we usually go for fishing. The restaurant was crowded with people that brought their families or just came to meet acquaintances, girls wearing their best and waiters running from one place to the other.
I heard something and instinctively looked in the direction of someone speaking loud. There were two women at the table and a man was standing with a purse in his hand. One of the women was an ordinary person in her thirties, but the other one was so small, so slim that I couldn´t tell it was an adult or a child. The guy was tall, a young man like so many other strong people of his age. He threw the purse on the table and, just like that, slapped the small girl´s face with all his strength. The sound attracted everybody´s attention. I was mesmerized at the view of someone hitting a small creature so hard. I stood up, watching them as if I could do something by doing so. The owner of the restaurant came to their table and started saying things that we can easily imagine. He didn´t say much because a second slap hit the girl´s face.
I suddenly saw myself in the center of the restaurant, shouting for the police, asking somebody (I didn´t know who) to bring the police and calling the man a coward. I managed to make him afraid, because he left the table and walked cautiously away from it. All the other people in the restaurant just stared. I have no idea what they thought about it.
The restaurant owner later came to our table to say that the girl was wrong, that they had just broken, she shouldn´t have gone out, and that the second woman at the table was her mother!
We all live on the same planet, but people live in different times, I guess. I know there have been dark times in the past, but we should be living the present, with an eye in the future. Disgusting.
