In general, I am a great patriot, I have always tried to find arguments and to defend everything Bulgarian and native everywhere and in front of everyone when necessary. But this summer I witnessed and experienced some very unpleasant incidents that disappointed me and made my patriotism evaporate. In June I was at a weekend seminar in Budapest. There were about 10 thousand people from Eastern Europe, the organization was great and we all left for Bulgaria satisfied and optimistic. At dawn through Kalotina we entered our territory and stopped to freshen up in a roadside restaurant. The driver locked the van and went to the bathroom. Returning after no more than 3 minutes, he saw a black Audi drifting dirty gas on the road and found that the middle window of the bus had been broken and a handbag with very important documents in it had been stolen. We called the police, two of them showed up, we seemed to have woken them up and they started repeating to us like morons that we should never say that they robbed us, but that the injured woman does not remember where and when she forgot her bag. If not, they would walk us around and write explanations. Egati police! Egati management! I experienced the second disappointment at Sofia Airport. Returning from ANTALYA and admiring the service at Turkish airports and planes, it turned out that I had to pay a fine because I missed my flight to Varna. And that was not true at all! The employee just made a mistake and gave me a ticket for a plane that had already taken off. Of course, no one found it necessary to apologize to me. Case three. With great desire I signed up for a trip around Scandinavia. Our group consisted of 51 people of different ages and professions. There is an old saying that a person shows what kind of person he is when he is on the road. It turned out that the Bulgarians are quite grumbling, undisciplined and annoying co-tourists. The claims had no end. It is good that the guide was an excellent professional. The cover of everything, however, was when in HELSINKI, one of the most pretentious personalities in the group (it turned out that she was a customs officer at the Svilengrad customs) committed a theft in a souvenir shop (worth 40 euros). They closed the store, the owner came, called the police and of course spat at the Bulgarians. But it hurt me the most when I saw the great disappointment in the eyes of our Finnish guide (a professor at the University of Helsinki who taught for a year to the daughter of the current president of Finland). This is a mess in Europe and in our country. Not to comment that nowhere did I see garbage, butts and plastic bags with which Bulgaria was buried from the borders to its beaches. PITY VERY PITY !!! Let's change, it's worth the effort!
1 geminibutterfly2 answered
I just didn't understand ... how do you suggest we change ?! if you think that only you make the subtle difference between Bulgaria and other more developed countries and at the moment you tell us how it is there - well done