RJ 03/02/1985 Sunday – A day on the boat
Today I was supposed to go out for lunch with granddad, Maira, Zezé, Jeison. Gil and Helio were going to the boat. But it was such a gorgeous day that I phoned my grandad asking if he didn’t mind giving lunch a miss, he was a bit upset but never mind; I arranged to go out with him tomorrow. Maira and Ieison couldn’t go because Maira was feeling sick: she ate pork chops and she is not used to it so she had diarrhoea and stomach pains. We were going to meet Helio at the Marina (my period has arrived) and when we got there Zezé bought me some sanitary towels. It was boiling hot. We waited for Helio until noon and then gave up. He was going to help us sail, so we couldn’t go, as Gil refuses to teach Zezé how to do it. I couldn’t even sunbathe as I had horrible cramps.
I spent half the time watching the fish while Gil cleaned the boat (Miss Maira), then he painted the proper name on it (well we used adhesives, from 3M, where he works). I was pulling the little boat while he stuck the name.
Later on he was moving the boat to a new spot he is rented (for 50,000 per month) and someone called his name. He looked away and then Zezé and I screamed: “It’s going to crash” Too late, we crashed into three boats, which were at the pier. The other boats weren’t ‘hurt’, and Miss Maira looked ok too, but everyone was staring at us, I was so embarrassed! We managed to anchor the boat to the buoy and we got to the little boat.
We had a look at the damage more closely: some scratches on the paintwork and a little whole but high enough for water not to go in. Half way back to the marina Gil remembered’ he had forgotten the air pump to fill the boat and the boat’s cover to keep it in when it’s not full of air, so we had to go back. We finally got home at 5. Maira said she’s coming with me tomorrow to have lunch with grandad: Aunt Italia is going back to Florianopolis on the 6th, a day after I leave.
This month’s inflation was 12.6% (it should have been 5% as set out by the contract with the IMF. Flamengo won today against Corinthians, 2×0!
The weather keeps going mad and it rains where it shouldn’t and it’s dry when it should be wet. The weather has gone mad since they built Itaipu, I think that massive lake is to blame for the climate change. The bastards destroyed Sete Quedas and messed up the environment. Murderers!