Personally, I don’t like to go to gatherings with mass audiences on the streets, but once I took part in one. It was a music concert in the downtown of my city. This event was organized by citizens who were promoting “values” such as integrity, truth, peace, honesty, social responsibility, transparency and justice. The stage was set up in front of the Sheraton Hotel, near the Justice Palace. At that time, my country had an election in progress.I went to the concert with my son Andres, who was 10 years old. When we arrived at the event, the street was almost full. A lot of people were around us and my little boy could not see the musicians easily. Then, I put him on my shoulders, but he wasn’t a baby and he really weighed a lot. When I was tired I put Andres down on the ground. After some minutes, he was restless and bored. In these circumstances, of course, I wasn’t enjoying the concert. Therefore, bringing to Andres wasn’t a good idea. But the worst was coming. Andres told me about his need to go to a washroom. I didn’t know what do, but I had to move fast because there were no public washrooms available in the place.
I decided to go to the Sheraton Hotel with him. It was a big challenge for us because the hotel was behind the stage, 200 meters from our position. Also, we had hundreds of people in front us and the security attendants’ lines, too. Even though, my decision looked like madness, we had to do it.
After that, things got better for us. When we were leaving to the hotel, we came across with some friends and their children who were members of organizing committee. They invited us to enter the VIP section, and we enjoyed the concert comfortably because in this section had chairs and we were very close to the stage. Finally, after the concert a friend dropped us off in our house.
