Fear

Armando Gonzalez was a very hard-working man. With a dream of buying a new house Armando and his wife had managed to save 50,000 pesos in a large bank of Mexico City after working for twenty years. On the day of buying the house the agent had demanded all the money in cash, so Armando went to the bank.

The cashier, in the bank counted the amount aloud before handing it over to Armando, who naturally thought now that the amount was heard everyone knows how much money he had.

The people in the bank began to look at Armando, but little did he know that it was because he had won his hat on backward rather that the fact that he was carrying a large amount of money. Among all the people in the bank a fat man stared at him which he had noticed. When Armando came to the street to wait for the bus, he saw the fat man appear next to him. Without much of a doubt he came to a conclusion that the fat man was going to rob him, consequently his body began to tremble and his heart beat faster as he anxiously waited for the bus. Fear had so consumed Armando the whenever the fat man looked at his pocket, Armando thought that he was checking his pistol.

When the bus came, Armando got on the bus and sat on the seat behind the driver he found the same man sitting behind him. Armando’s whole dream of buying the new house was in his pocket. As they moved on, he saw three boys talking to the fat man that made him truly skeptic, whether they were the helpers of the fat man. Armando got up the bus at the next station however the boys also got off from the back door. Armando was sure that they were going to rob him. So, he cried begging help from the bystanders running as fast as he could. The boys simply thought that he might have undergone some serious problem so they ran after him to help out. Armando fell on the ground many times as he ran. When the boys caught up to him, they found him weeping like a child and requesting them not to rob him. He said that he was honest and he had earned that money in fair way through hard work. Eventually, when he knew that they were not robbers, he felt ashamed and returned to the bus stop with the boys.

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