In this, Brussels has reminded me of the cocktail bars in Tokyo located on floors of buildings, when a gaijin – a guiri – appears who tries to have a drink despite the air of an elephant in a china shop that he has in these discreet spaces.

–Sorry, only partners.

–Well, I become a member…

Yamadori or Yamashita, a Japanese boss knows everything.

–Admission costs three million yen…

Now it turns out that the bureaucrats of the European Union want to give us 132 million euros a year to make the use of Catalan, Galician and Basque official. Do these people have feelings? Do they not know that it is an exciting illusion?

What a shame, I thought when I found out the estimate. You feel like letting it go and leaving, very dignified, with the typical excuse of the tourist who has tried on clothes in London and doesn’t have a shilling.

–I’m in a hurry, I’ll come back another day and I’ll take the pair from John Lobb. Two thousand pounds, he says?

Since it is a detail that progressive Spain makes with unruly nationalists, it could well haggle in Brussels and adjust the price. Nor is it about translating the Tirant lo Blanc, so it would be enough to have dedicated interns, not print the documents and translate from home and thus save on booths.

And if they don’t get off their ass – I can already smell that they are not very excited but since Spain has promised to assume the expense, how big is Castilla! – there is always the consolation of putting those 132 million annually into perspective.

–It’s the parrot’s chocolate!

–The signings of Dembélé and Coutinho cost more!

–Today, with 132 million you don’t even have enough for a Märklin train…

–The important thing is to restore a historical debt. Money is not everything in the afterlife!

The bad thing will be to put up with those of the ’78 regime, who make a point of everything and protest about so many details.

–A lot of messing with the Royal House and it has an annual budget of 8.4 million euros…

Being all Spaniards, determined people who don’t look into the problem, let’s move forward with the lawsuit and for money that doesn’t remain, like in Manolo Caracol’s parties.