Armando Gonzalez was a very hard-working
man. After he and his wife worked for twenty years, they were able to save
50,000 pesos in a large bank of Mexico City. With a dream of buying a new house
Armando went to the bank to withdraw the money as per the suggestion of the
agent who wanted the payment in cash. The cashier, in the bank counted the
money in a loud voice. Armando thought that everyone knows how much money he had.
The people in the bank began to look at
Armando because he had worn his hat on backward. But he thought that they were
looking at him for his money. A fat man stared at him on account of the way he
had worn the hat. When Armando came to the street to wait for the bus, he saw
the fat man next to him. He suspected that the fat man was going to rob him,
therefore his body began to shake and his heart started beating faster. Armando
was waiting for the bus. When the fat man looked at his pocket, Armando thought
that he was checking his pistol. In this way the situation made him quite
nervous.
When the bus came, Armando got on the bus and
sat on the seat behind the driver but he found the same man sitting behind him.
Armando’s whole dream of buying the new house was in his pocket. He was not
happy because he thought that someone would easily make his dream end.
Moreover, he saw three boys talking to the fat man that made him truly skeptic,
whether they were the helpers of the fat man. Armando got up the bus at the
next station from the front door but after sometime the boys also got off from
the back door. Armando was sure that they were going to rob him. So, he cried
begging help from the bystanders. Then he ran as fast as he could. The boys
simply thought that he might have undergone some serious problem so they ran
after him for his help. Armando fell in the ground many times. Eventually, the
boys meet him, who was weeping like a child and requested not to rob him. He
said that he was honest and he had earned that money in fair way through hard
work. However when he knew that they were not robbers, he felt ashamed. He
returned to the bus stop with the boys feeling easy and happy.
