Ridding the nation of graft
I was undergoing a three-day training programme at the local Mazda Dealership with a view to becoming a professional sales person. On the second day our trainer, a veteran sales person, during midday recess, inquired who parked his car at the place designated for the customers. I replied that it was me. Then he asked me to remove the car and park it on the alleyway adjacent to the Mazda Dealership during the next break.
I complied with his request and parked my car in the alleyway adjacent to the Dealership but in the wrong direction. As ill luck would have it, a cop turned up and found my car parked in the wrong direction. After the training, I came out of the Dealership and found a ticket on the windshield of my car. I was found to be guilty of parking my car in the wrong direction and was made to pay a fine of forty dollars by a check payable to the City of Houston.
The citation stipulates, if I fail to pay the fine within the specified time limit, my car would be booted, which left me with no choice but to comply with. If anything like this would have happened back in my hometown Dhaka, I would have definitely tried to bribe the cop and get out of the undesirable situation. Now I do feel that things need to be changed for the greater interest of the nation. How about rescuing the nation from the curse of graft?
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