TOO YOUNG

With eighteen years old our dear girl was working inside the Banco Hispano Americano, at first she was not happy with the change. 
She was happy working in Deutz, the German Company, even she started to learn German as inside her mind was the posibility of going to Germany to work over there.

She was young, she was less of tweenty years old, and her mother had the last word if she wanted to go out home or to another country.
Yes, that was the real state of a woman, or a girl with less than 21 years, she was on charge of her parents, her mother, or her husband.
A woman can not go to a country of Europe like Germany if she was less than 21 years and her mother, in the case of Cuca, said NO.


Her mother instead thought it could be better that this girl get a job in the Banco Hispano Americano where his brother was working already.
So, doing that  Cuca´s thoughts will be out of the idea or going out and trying to work in Germany.


Cuca wa a nice good daughter, and said “yes mom” and started to learn Bank´s business to get a seat in this Hispano Americano Bank.
On the year 1964 being eighteen years old  Cuca was working in the Bank instead of Deuth, her studies of German was over, and she began to study French instead.

Inside the Bank´s offices there were hundred of young people working. Lots of young girls and some boys too with similar age of Cuca´s.
By those years the Bank would be like a marriage agency, couples were formed very fast but years after the Bank should be like a divorce site where hundred of persons were divorced, life if so and nobody knows anything about future.
Divorce was not allowed by these years in Spain, it has to come democracy and new laws to allow divorces, secular marriages, and other kind of free customs not so well. Drugs were ahead on the eighty years but even wors Sida should be a plague among the young people.

But this is another story, just the story of a country that went from a dictator to a democracy in a SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.

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Work was easy those years and there was the option of getting a job in several Banks in Madrid city, nearly every year, Banesto, Central, Hispano, Bilbao Vizcaya, Santander, were banks than usually have lot of places to these young that were living on the sixties years in this country called Spain.
Not everything was bad living in this dictatorial society that was ruling everything in the nation. 

There was not political freedom, not freedom to opposit the Franco´s dictator regimen, not freedom to get a divorce, not sex freedom at all, not news freedom who said what was happening in the world, censure was making extra hours with the movies, the books, the newspaper and so forth, bue
some good forms of easy way of living was up those years.

Soon the May´s 1968 Paris Revolution was going to happen and everything will be changing soon, for good? for bad?  Who knows?
There are opinios of all kind as humans are quite complicated......sorry, again "this is other story".

Let us continue with our girl....

Nothing was necessary to get the job, not any high studies, only make a hard exam and get the place.
If a young have high studies it was better for her/him as the Company gave some points to add to their exam.

Cuca was a good student, in fact she have liked to go to the university if that could have been possible, but without a father and with a widow mother without any penssion it was necessary that this girl works very soon.

Working in a bank was good, nice people inside, a seat to be resting the full day while you work, not having to be up so many time as other kind of works, and lot of young people like you that make a fuss frequently, talking aloud in the dinner room when they spent the half an hour free time to lunch.


Soon this girl make some friends inside the Bank Office, and started to have something similar like a club of girls and boys that goes to the mountains in winter or to the swiming pool in summer. 

Life was easy and funny for all these people of similar age and time enough when they get out from the Bank office.

Madrid was a nice big city to live and to go every place without any danger. 

You could walk along the streets without not any problems, not thiefs or bad people, the dictator was strong and the police were looking to have peace on the streets.
Tourists were coming to Spain those years and life seems beauty and very easy of living.

Cuca with some money of her own bought a pair of skis, (long slender runners made of wood, plastic or metal used in gliding over the snow) and started to go to the mountains near Madrid.

She wanted to learn how to ski and have fun every weekend of winter.

To be continued....

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 LIFE WAS EASY cuca / emiliano´s story



Life was easy on those years for the young people in Spain, of course if they don´t go in trouble about
political ideas.
There wasn´t liberty to think or to have a public opinion about what was happening out the world or inside the country.
Strikes were forbiden, political parties were not allowed and even manifestations on the street were also forbiden.
The Regimen was always on the TV giving the people, bullfights, futbol, and music festivals, nothing about free spech or free opinion on the papers.

Even so young people have work in several big companies that were growing up on the sixties and even Beatles have been in Madrid on the second of july 1965 and it was like a earthquake for the life of millions of young people.

Why not going to learn how to ski on the week ends?.

Just said and done. Cuca started to go to the mountains near the capital because she wanted to ski like other thousand  of locals who went to Navacerrada and try to slide down the snow more harm than good.

Yes, Cuca had a nice funny life as a young of 19 years old in the Spanish life of 1965, with a good work, leaving the Bank office at a good hour and going in winter weekends to ski the Madrid´s mountains close near the big city.
By those time also emiliano was going to the mountains in winter, but he didn´t want lear how to ski at it seems difficult and dangerous for him.

Yes, it was dangerous, poor Cuca broke a hip instead of learn to ski and everything changed for her.Her life started to be different as everything seems to go wrong with her broken hip, it needed a surgical operation delayed by a strong cold that complicated the surgical result of the operation.

After some time of been operated she was bad, the poor girl have pain in her leg and she couldn´t walk properly and have to be in plaster for about a year, still without power out to the street, reading, listening to music, receiving many visits at the beginning and not so many after a few months.

After all life continue for her friends that after going to see her frequently, started to recover their youth and they went again to dance and to the swiming pool in summer.

Meanwhile cuca remained at home still hoping to recover from a very bad surgery.

But not all her friends went to the swiming pool with the other, there was one whose name was José Luis that being in love with Cuca take this opportunity to visit her frequently.

What happened after a year of entering the Cuca´s house, talk to the mother, the brother of the girl, these visits?. Well, it is easy to imagine, both ended up being boyfriends and later fiance...

Cuca felt that their wings were cut for ever and she had a lot of time to think about.
First goal for her was to be o.k., but this new situation was going to take a long time for this young girl.

Day after day she received the visit of this young man who were in love with her.
He was a boy with a past mind, old mind repect everything about relationship between girls and boys, wife and husband, the paper of a wife at home and the different paper of the husband.

Soon this will be so evident that the  the girl had to reconsider the situation which was doomed if continued relationship with this young man too old ideas about marriage and lot of subjects.

It has to wait a some time yet to change everything in the life of our dear Cuca who knew nothing about her life in future.
First she thought about her life together with this young man Jose Luis who was going every day to see her at home.

After some months of coming to see her he requested her to be his girlfriend, what to say? what to do, being so grateful to him?.
Evidently, yes, Cuca will be his girlfriend till the moment they will promised each other what could be a complete disaster for ever.

After all this not happened as future keeps some surprises for this girl, either for Jose Luis and Emiliano, the boy who was out her life for the moment.

This would be not for long, future has a paper for this boy who was outside of these events.

To be continued......

el gatufo