Tour of the Christmas lights: from the ball of Alcalá to the flag of Fernández Villaverde

• JOSÉ AYMÁ

Updated on Monday, 6December2021-01: 50

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Does the bad light enrage you? So says the slogan in

. The taxi driver stops by the window and laughs sarcastically: "At work I always avoid the center, the customer burns me with a bad face. When I started in the taxi, buying a cathode ray TV meant a few months' sweat. Now I have three plasmas and I can't retire, so that the family can continue with 'Tele 5' and 'Netflix'. What a hard time this, what a time! '", he complains.

Gran Vía, Montera, Preciados, Jorge Juan and Narváez ....

. Between Alcalá and Gran Vía a cyclopean ball of light 12 meters in diameter, 43,000 led lights weighing seven tons. A thousand kilos fir tree in the Plaza de España, with more than 800 balls, luminous cords and 27,000 points of light.

A city does not become a city until it boasts neon lights. The public lighting diagnoses his cosmopolitan virility. It does not sleep, it does not close, as they say about New York, mirror of cities. A city without light, it is a city without a street, without flirting with trends, without cool vanity, without fine flour baguettes. Without neon lights, it smells of Berlanguiana Christmas, of Álex de la Iglesia's community staircase gossip. The politician needs to illuminate the argumentation of the beautiful parade,

.

In Pinar del Rey, bohemian crystal chandeliers still hang from the ceiling of a furniture store.

They were a fringe apartment staple, like now Ikea's remote-controlled lightbulb.

It's long gone out of fashion and the owner

.

"You see, they have stayed there.

, but who buys a lamp with twelve candle bulbs and a small socket? At least it lights the way for the neighbors."

LEDs that reduce taxpayer spending have not reached this neighborhood.

"Almeida does save here!"

It is said by a woman who sees me taking the photo.

The bite is getting bigger, that of the electrics, it is understood.

Many families will look at the Christmas window,

.

The new electricity bills herald calamity, energy poverty.

A game of trileros with ties, who go to his deception, who master the craft of the small print and when things get ugly, retreat with a babbling threat in between.

The 'electric' rattle sounds more and more like a puritanical double standard to us.

The toymakers deny the shortage, they are in the campaign.

They recently went through the shadow of the pandemic.

Like everyone.

But what about the ones on TV, the toys that make children blind?

These will be daddy's fierce loot on Amazon, AliExpress or at street level.

Antonio has brought his family from a town in Toledo.

"We always came for the December bridge. We left it, when the pandemic took the mother-in-law.

, although the kids are already back from Cortylandia, now they love to touch mobile phones in Mediamark or El Corte Inglés."

The municipal police warn of disaster, they told their heads of the City Council.

"This is an anthill, a

, here there is no safety distance. And on top of that omicron, we can't cope. From here, the virus has the size of a person."

And to top it all, the

or a worrying variant.

For the good people to be scared, they go to the hardware store for the gas infernillo, the survival machete and the Mad Max-style bad host manual.

Nice Christmas gift!

In Filomena the shovels were exhausted, the toilet paper in the confinement.

New collective psychosis in the city that dresses in neon lights.

As long as everything is hoaxes, on this bridge in December, the Madrid churro will continue to be eaten as always, under the glamor of the gloom.

The teenage boyfriends will have

.

In Chueca, after shopping in Gran Vía, governor quesadilla with picadillo, chorizo ​​and prawns, green chilaquiles with chicken.

Tequila José Cuervo, because of the cold.

At Nuevos Ministerios,

that delight herds of teenagers, who sit at long tables, taking photos in the flames of gas stoves, eating cotton candy and sharing the experience a second time on Instagram.

A lighted Spanish flag

installed on the sides of the Raimundo Fernández Villaverde bridge guides the Christmas market.

All very

, with a whiff of burger and hot dog, enlivened by

Mariah Carey's

.

Outside of the agglomeration, there is

, somewhat on the corner, where they stop before taking the subway back home, lifelong currelas.

Free antigen test at the pharmacy for each person from Madrid and vaccination for minors between 5 and 11 years old from December 15th.

Ayuso's shock plan against the wandering of the virus for this Christmas.

In case the flies, a churrera in the Glorieta de Carlos V, takes advantage of the churros that have remained cold to go home for dinner, lest, when they arrive

and Christmas is once again the one that counted with so much sarcasm Rafael Azcona.

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