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While satire has erupted on the web with the Turkish trailer, for us Arnauts, Rruga e Arbri is a divine reminder that we are all passers-by on the road of life—sometimes blocked, often confused, always deceived, rarely lucky, but always hoping that in the construction sites where he has been sweating day and night for 10 years, the day will come when some road will be finished...
An event that would make Kafka blush happened yesterday on Arbri Street. This road, whose opening was inaugurated with a drum dance on November 28, 2021, promised to be fully opened in April 2022 – was blocked by a single car, a Turkish trailer.
The trailer was identified from the Brrar bridge by the "Albania 1" satellite, but the motives of this route remain unclear.
Perhaps excited to pass through the areas where Hajredin Pasha had once left his head with the army, an Anatolian driver whose trailer was flying the Turkish flag found himself stranded at the top of the Hawthorn Pass, with no hope that he could it was moving, neither to the left nor to the right, neither in front nor behind, while from another car it was heard "only ahead".
The driver, an Odysseus unaware of his search, discovered that to get to Macedonia, there was a shorter route than the "Eight Corridor". Tempted by "Google Maps" itself, the modern oracle of Delphi, the driver started the adventure towards his Ithaca. But the digital-divine guidance did not lead him to the promised land, but rather to the Murriz Pass, blocking dozens of vehicles and creating a Gordian traffic knot that even the modern Skanderbeg of Albania cannot solve.
The driver himself denied that he was directed by "Google Map".
He said he had seen the news three years ago, when the opening party resembled the Prince's wedding in England.
Critics and satirists immediately remembered that for 13 years they have been working day and night at this construction site. "It is the road of the future," said an old man from Zall Dajti, "and it will always be the road of the future." You young people fly a little and forget that you live in the present and not the future".
"It is not that the road is not finished, the road is finished, but it is not yet open. Sorry, it's the other way around, the road is open, but it's not over - said a man from Dibra who, like every Dibra, couldn't understand if he was serious or if he was making fun of the plight of the Turk".
In a statement that could only come from the annals of government optimism, a transport official assured the public that the road was "almost open", "almost finished", "almost passable" and that "these minor hiccups are part of the journey towards unstoppable progress".
Meanwhile, the Turkish trailer has been unofficially proposed to be called "The Ship of Theseus". It remains to be seen whether it will retain its identity until the road is opened or become a stationary monument of irony.
While satire has erupted on the web with the Turkish trailer, for us Arnauts, Rruga e Arbri is a divine reminder that we are all passers-by on the road of life—sometimes blocked, often confused, always deceived, rarely lucky, but always hoping that in the construction sites where he has been sweating day and night for 10 years, the day will come when some road will be finished...
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