A tree on the road

On the road leading to Manresa, just before reaching the turn-off that takes you to the Oller del Mas winery, where a group of wine lovers and I take the specialization course in sommelier studies at Joviat, there is a plane tree, like the ones you find on so many rural roads. As in so many other places (a fence, a bridge, a milestone...), there are flowers that indicate that a fatal accident happened there. Flowers are only placed there if that has been the case. I seem to recall that it is on the Vallvidrera road where there is a graffito that says: "We will always remember you, Copi". In this tree, however, apart from the flowers, there is another element. A balloon, one of those that float, in the shape of a motorcycle. In the shape of a silver Vespa. This makes you understand that whoever surely lost their life at this tree was riding a motorcycle.

The balloon is inflated, and if I think that balloons don't last long, and that they quickly lose air, I understand that it was put there recently. How long has it been since the person they are honoring died? And, above all, who went to buy the balloon? Such a balloon can only be bought in one of those joke shops. Cheerful and festive. A shop for birthdays, for parties, for jokes. I imagine them buying it, not saying a word, not smiling. And I imagine them inflating it, perhaps with an inflator, which they might have also bought at the same place or already had. A fun motorcycle that has been wrapped around the tree to remember a motorcyclist of whom nothing remains.