A diligent bus inspector

Yesterday 26th of May 2023, because I decided to provide some care to one of cats inhabiting the garden besides my dwelling place, instead of immersing myself in the independence day celebrations, I took the mashurtka, the number 534, and approximately from Metro station Avlabari I went, or I was going, to a veterinarian at Digomi. Until now all went very well, except that, because "historically" in Mashurtka you pay at the end of the course, and because there is materially no space for an internal control, I was used to stamp my ticket indeed at the end of the course, by contrast than in the bus, where you, and me as well, are used to stamp the ticket at the beginning of the course. Also, because in order to stamp my ticket I use my credit/debit card, I have a complete history of daily payments to Tbilisi's public transport, one or more per day, for each ride I use them. Now, and that never happened before to me, never, I was crossing the freeway between Tbilisi and Digomi above such Mashurtka n. 534, when, at a bus stop therein, 2 bus inspectors entered, and, for the first time I ever experienced that, they checked the passengers tickets during their travel, before they went out and they had the opportunity to stamp their tickets (i.e., in modern times, to gently swipe the card over the detector). Now, my Georgian language is limited, and constrained to the orders in restaurants or pizzerias, and my spoken English is far worst than my written English, so I wasn't really able to support and advocate myself. I repeated something that a man besides me told, in Georgian (I imagined he was saying what I was thinking, that is, for what the hell you are checking tickets during the travel, while some or all the passengers hadn't yet the opportunity to stamp their tickets, "I will do it later", or "I assumed to do it later") and I expressed, in a unconvincing way, the same concept in English. The too diligent bus inspectors possibly understood, a little, or possibly not, and invited me to went out. I actually already gave to her my card, and I followed her, with the aim to explain better my position. I think we were both speaking a language (English), while her colleague did not speak it at all, in which we were so little comfortable in using it, so it was really painful to try to establish a minimal communication. By the way, other Georgian passengers, in my same situation, just walked away from the 2 too diligent bus inspectors, so diligent and daredevils like pirates, or the bandits of the far west attacking stagecoaches (they won't agree with that definition, but I can explain it further and possibly demonstrate them that it is correct in a profound sense), and, because they found somebody perhaps a little angry, rightly so, but obsequious to the rules and in turn diligent, they proceeded to fine me, a miserable 20 GEL fine, who everybody is able to pay (which is of course good) at a price, rather, to treat me like that, get me off the thing, and waste me about 15 maybe 20 minutes of precious time: as I had to wait for another mashurtka with the same number. They also switched on the camera to pronounce my name (my name!) to somebody on the other side, or in the beyond, in the act of giving me this accursed fine: because it is totally undeserved, and because essentially goes to replenish the trophy of the daily fines imposed on unsuspecting passengers, by such one or 2 too diligent bus inspectors. Now, I thought more about that, I partially didn't sleep at night because of this (as if to say): were they right, or they were wrong and what about me ? From a very high point of view, the point of view of eagles, the Tbilisi public transport just took possession of the network of the nice yellow and private mashurtkas running throughout the city all the time (on which you paid only and uniquely at the end of the ride) and super-imposed their rules, that is rules that are reasonable for big buses, not for mashurtkas, and this is what I was trying to explain to the 2 too diligent bus inspectors: since perhaps sometimes when you enter the mashurtka you are not prepared to unfold your card, and in general it's not comfortable or feasible to do that, or as my case you bring with you the soft cage of a little cat, and that's really, really hard: so you schedule to do it at the end of the course. Another consideration is the following: are the bus inspectors allowed to fine you before that you get off the bus ? Technically, you may still stamp the ticket until you don't get off, so in the occurrence they do it before, they sanction an irregularity before it is committed. The bus inspectors, and the Tbilisi's transport company, here will say that their regulation requires to stamp the ticket at the moment in which you get on the bus or mashurtka (indifferently), so that (or because that) they can do an inspection at any time. This is reasonable from the transport company's view, but is it entirely in accordance with the law? Or: does the law offer more possibilities or acceptable alternatives to comply with the regulation of Tbilisi's transport company ? Of course I think so, Tbilisi's transport company can actually enforce their regulation, but on the other side the law does not completely allow that, in the precise way they enforce it, so they cannot invoke the law, apart their regulation, in the act of enforcing them, and in some cases commit an abuse. (of course with that I'm not saying that you are allowed to not pay the bus ticket, I'm saying that bus inspectors should refrain to adopt stagecoach stormers dynamic). When I was there, after I went off the bus, I was saying something like "that's not correct" and she replied the same thing to me and I replied the same thing to her " .... " ... "no, you are not correct!", we said in a somewhat childish way. But c'mon, ms. or mrs x, I can prove that: do you think I use public transport because I cannot afford a car ? Do you think all the persons who happen to be among the people and who hide themselves among them, should be treated this way? In a mutual humiliation that makes so difficult the daily life, sometimes impossible, and that necessarily (when it goes well) explodes in tears? Do you think that the only way to save human dignity is to rely on the private car, and shut himself up inside it, and do all the dirty stuff inside? Do you understand all that, mr and mrs diligent inspector, and how many trophies did you make in yesterday's working day, of which you will be ashamed in a few years? Shall I invoke one or more NGOs, foreign agents, social media platforms and all this shit, in order to make you pay, fixing the arbitrariness or iniquity of regulations, with the power that comes from above ? Do you understand all that, mr and mrs diligent inspector X, and Y ? (because they were 2) Was yesterday your Victory day or mine, or perhaps of the little cat dwelling in my shoulder soft-cage ? Do you think I'm against the law (wrongly) or don't you think I'm for laws and regulations suitable, fit for the common good ? How we can fix and solve this issue ? From tomorrow, Sunday 28th of May 2023, for all the reasons stated, Tbilisi's transport company accepts to check the tickets of passengers traveling on a Mashurtka only when they get off, except where they aren't able to facilitate or to make possible with full comfort the stamp of the tickets while they are traveling, through devices able to read passenger's card from their pocket, or through, indeed, bus inspectors that facilitate stamping the ticket (until they are still on the vehicle) and that certainly don't take away poor and honest passengers from their place. At the same time, if Tbilisi's transport company wants to impose an habit with some violent behavior, that's (theoretically) fine, as long as who is entitled to enforce it, is in turn sanctioned for this for each specific case. And, as evidence of something that can only work on the basis of the division of labor, and decisions taken from above without getting your hands dirty, without to go and see what really happens, what all this implies for the executors (but also for those responsible), that's it: from the viewpoint of a world that changes.