The Cable Affair

Three years ago, a technician came to install the fiber. Once there, he looked at the house and said: sorry, that’s not going to be possible. And he left. Recently, I was called back to say that in fact it would be possible. Another technician arrived, he looked and he said: well, then, there are two possibilities. Except that in fact there is only one. – Okay. – It’s up to you, huh! – But you just told me that I have no choice! – Okay, but it’s your choice. And, therefore, it will be necessary to lay the cable from the outside. When he was done, I came to see. He had stapled a black cable on the facade of the house, from top to bottom, clearly visible from visible. But it’s awful, I told him. Ah, you chose, he replied. But you told me I had no choice! Can we at least unclip the cable and lay it differently, to make it less visible? Ah, sorry, it’s too late. I cut the cable. And I’m out of cable. Thereupon he left. I don’t know why, it made me think of this interview of François Mitterrand by Yves Mourousi, centuries ago, a special interview for young people. Mourousi: are you wired? Mitterrand: ah, you are delaying, we say bleca today. Well, there it is. Everyone sees, for miles around, that I’m dead wrong. But no one knows what that means anymore.

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