Laura Garriga explained this Monday in Readers’ Letters that tomorrow she will have to sit, like so many other (un)fortunate people, at a polling station. I would be delighted if it weren’t for the fact that karma has wanted these elections, shoehorned into a second Sunday in May that many would prefer to spend on the beach, to coincide with the day scheduled for their exam (I think by the SOC) to graduate as a teacher. of yoga. What was said. She would gladly go…if she could. But she will show up forced because she has no other choice. Or table. Or fine. Or jail. That’s how things are.
The reader has no escape. She has alleged about the exam, but her excuse is not valid. It doesn’t count as a “can’t-be-postponed family event.” It does not fall into the category of professional responsibility (only those who work in essential services such as firefighting or healthcare can benefit from the waiver). Neither she nor she can hide behind personal causes: what is hers has no remedy. She is not over 65 years old (in the letter she specifies that she turned 50 in 2023), nor is she a victim of a crime, nor should she have three-timed at a polling station in the last calls. She is sure that she has reviewed all the causes that would free her from it. And there is not, there is not a single one that is worth it. Those confined in a penitentiary or psychiatric center are released. The (very) pregnant. Those who have minors or elderly in their care and no one to help them. And although there are a long list of extra reasons that grant this permission, none of them are valid for poor Laura.
So tomorrow, no matter what, it will be at that table that there are still those who sell as an “exciting opportunity to learn from the inside how the Democracy Party works.” The surprising thing is that she will have to leave her exam on asanas, mantras, Sanskrit, philosophy, anatomy and first aid for another day (another year?), while those who had paid vacations or tickets to Coldplay in the July 23 elections will not They had to give up neither the trip nor the show.
I would not go. At the table, I say. He would plead the need for what Évole baptized as a stony (five days to meditate!) and would go to the exam. If you get a 400 euro fine, you win (the course is around 3,000) and if you get jail time, it’s comforting to know that they also do yoga there.
