I was on my way to pick up Santi from school last Thursday, like I do almost every day. There was an incentive for getting there early that day, because Santi's team had an important game.
Now this is the time of the year in which 80% of the city roads seem to be closed due to some work, so getting there and coming back from Santi's school has been quite a challenge. It seems, however, that I finally found a convenient route, which includes going through one of the city's biggest green spaces, Victoria Park.
I was driving through it that day, when I saw the two cars in front of me stop dead on their tracks, to then resume but going very slowly. I immediately saw what was going on: a large group of Canadian geese was about to go across the street at… goose speed. I had no choice but to stop and wait until they made it to the other side. I counted them, there was 26 of the little guys.
As I was counting geese, I realized that they would make for a beautiful -or at least amusing- picture that I could use for this blog. I quickly reached to the back seat and grabbed my camera from my backpack. Turned it on and... "No available memory". The SD card was gone! I knew exactly what had happened:
- Saaaaantiiii!!!!
I just knew that the card was sitting on top of his desk, along with the other two memories and -just maybe- the other two cameras. This Santi and his C-Walk videos...
Oh, have I mentioned that on top of that, the camera immediately showed a ‘batteries low’ message and shut down? So even if I had that ^!&%# SD card I would have left empty-handed…
The same kind of geese, back in May (in Virginia)El asunto es que esta es la época del año en que el 80% de las calles de la ciudad parecen estar cerradas debido a trabajos de repavimentación, así que ir y volver de la escuela de Santi es más que un desafío. Parecería, sin embargo, que ya encontré un camino conveniente, que implica tener que atravesar uno de los espacios verdes más grandes de la ciudad, el Victoria Park.
Manejaba por ahí el otro día, cuando vi a los dos autos delante de mí frenar de improviso, para luego continuar muy lentamente. Inmediatamente ví el motivo de tan brusca maniobra: un grupo grande de gansos canadienses se disponía a cruzar la calle a velocidad… de ganso. No me quedó otra que parar y esperar a que los bichos llegaran al otro lado. De aburrido que estaba, los conté: eran 26.
En pleno recuento de gansos caí en la cuenta de que podía sacar una foto muy linda –o al menos divertida– para poner en este blog. Enseguida me estiré para atrás y manoteé la cámara que estaba en mi mochila, en el asiento de atrás. La prendí y… “No available memory”. Le faltaba la tarjeta SD! Supe exactamente lo que había pasado:
- Saaaaantiiii!!!!
No tenía ninguna duda de que la tarjeta estaba sobre su escritorio, junto a las otras dos SD cards que tenemos y –tal vez– las otras dos cámaras. Este Santi y sus videos de C-Walk…
Oh, mencioné por casualidad que además la cámara me mostró un mensaje diciendo ‘baterías bajas’ y se apagó inmediatamente? Así que aunque hubiese tenido la ^!&%# tarjeta SD me hubiese ido con las manos vacías…
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