A ball of people stuck their heads out at noon at the Montera street zebra crossing.
The creatures crossed the large river of Gran Vía with the bite of the paper bag in hand.
All identical.
The flaps of the marks are the definitive proof that originality is a lost issue.
The next destination was clear: to drink in the Primark pond
.
Taking the Schweppes sign as a reference, on the right side of the street the traffic was much more intense than on the other side.
Through Callao the
selfies
fell , some numb kisses and the youngster rushing the hours until the
rentrée
from college or institute.
The circuit was guarded by many agents of the Municipal Police, who had cut some access to traffic.
The actress
Manuela Velasco
crossed the field of vision of the police by an unmarked place as if she managed to complete a Commandos mission.
Sales kill individualism in the most individualistic times.
The
smarthpone
cast the mirage of being an island.
There will be thousands of identical photos in the same location at the same time on the same day.
Juan was pointing at four or five women sitting in the Zara window.
He was aiming at them with his camera.
"I've been doing street photography for a couple of years."
He didn't want to talk too much, going with the current, afloat in the tidal waves of people.
The whirlwind of shopping pulled him.
He wasn't going to put up any resistance.
"This is disgusting",
he assessed before falling hundreds of meters below the Inditex group store.
The Primark escalator made a noise like the one James Cameron's Titanic made before splitting in two.
From the outside they looked less solid.
Up the step, the rattle was comfortable.
At the top, the sweatshirts, pajamas, shirts, pants and wildlife used to buy with the so-called clothes-to-be-at-home were waiting.
"It is impossible for it not to be a strainer
," warned the person in charge of private security at street level.
"It's been a quiet day. There is always someone who wants to take something without paying, but they are closely watched. Thanks to the cameras we find out right away. They are taken to the intervention room and if the sum of what was stolen exceeds a certain number , it is denounced".
At aperitif time,
"5,000 or 6,000 people can pass through here
," said her partner before carrying out the relay.
"Honestly, I'm surprised how few problems we're having today."
"We were going to go now"
Inside was Roberto, a former computer scientist at Tal cual, a Venezuelan newspaper, and a retired financier.
He was isolated.
He sheltered in a corner where he guarded the suitcases "of my daughter and my wife."
His ancestors are German.
In fact, he has a pin of the German flag pinned to his cap.
"In 1814 they emigrated to Venezuela."
He now lives in Grao, Gandía.
"My children live in Barcelona. This is how we are close and we do not mortgage their freedom. In Grao we pay 450 euros for rent", he resolved.
He has been waiting for the women for a while.
"We were going to leave now. They were only supposed to come for some creams
," he explained just before his wife appeared.
"We have spent two days in Madrid. We came to see the Cirque del Sol. We love it."
Outside, a couple, chased by a camera operator, crossed the heavily caramelized road.
Taking advantage of a traffic interruption, they put one nose against the other recreating a very romantic scene with the background of the Carrión building.
They held out as long as possible until the first car appeared.
"It's that we're going to get married,"
he justified the feat.
At the door of Bershka there were not so many people.
The downpour was falling in Primark and this aesthetic venue from the early years of the two thousandth was collecting the crumbs.
Berskha will always be accompanied by the header of the
Loka
magazine that the girls bought in the primary of the
millennials
.
20 people queued up.
Several mannequins were dressed in identical
outfits
.
A girl amused herself by touching the jewel that fell from the top like an ornament, I guess sexy, on the artificial belly of the trompe l'oeil model.
Alejandra was loaded with Zara bags up the corner of Tudescos street.
She was taking a bite of a piece of fried chicken.
Has she found what she wanted?
"Not".
Then?
"Everything was so cheap that I bought it, but it wasn't what she wanted."
What's up?
"Well, it's the first time I've come to the sales."
She is 17 years old.
"I always buy online, but today I went out to see what I was seeing.
It bores me a bit to meet so many people."
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