Formal idiot

Recently I saw a Croatian idiot.

He was dressed in the form of a Croatian policeman.

He was on duty at the airport of Zagreb and went to our car. That is, he came up just not like an idiot-the car really slowed down in the wrong place.

I went out to explain to the policeman a simple conflict: in a minute, an agent of Rent a Car will come here, the car will leave right away, and everything will be fine ...

But the policeman interrupted me in a midst: speak good!

In a good way, I did not know how. He knew (badly) in English.

- English, Spanish, German - no! - cut off the approaching on the same bad English. - Nou! Here is Croatia! Speak in a good way!

There was no technical opportunity to discuss.

I spread my hands, got into the car, and my wife and I traveled silently, away from sin, a hundred meters forward, where I already loomed, Masha with my hands, a guy from a rental agency ...

Not disdaining, by the way, to speak English, and very good.

Why did I remember this episode?

Because suddenly he realized: that formed idiot probably considers himself a Croatian patriot, the guardian of language and culture. Suffers from globalization. Looking for an opportunity to insert a moral wick to the foreigners who came here ...

And the boy from a rolling company about patriotism, go, and does not think at all. He just works - and together with millions of friendly residents of Croatia, makes the country richer and more attractive, primagnetic tourists ...

Which a formed idiot, on behalf of the state, scares away.

This enthusiast-policeman is essentially a pest-like almost every patriot of this kind (see numerous domestic counterparts).

Does he love his homeland? Undoubtedly.

Only the homeland is not easier from this.