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into personal office spaces, and conference divisions with big tables and a lot of chairs around them. Probably it would have been a very good idea to let the receptionist's desk out of the partition, so the people entering the room will see her and know where to stop. Upon entering the office, I saw at my left a person behind a desk talking on the phone and I imagined that she was a regular office person talking on the phone. So I stopped to the partition on the right site where two women were working on papers laid out on a big conference table. I asked for directions, and one of them giving me a look similar to "Da, you stupid, there is the reception, do you think that I am the one?"

I did not want to start on a wrong foot, so I thanked her and went to the receptionist, who seeing me coming towards her, put the caller on hold and after I told her my name invited me to take a place on the area by the door which was furnished with some chairs a small magazine table with a few magazines on it. I was waiting for about five minutes, and the person who was so unpleasantly surprised that I though that she was the receptionist, came to invite me to start the paper work. We went into the partition and she offered me a chair to sit down. She gave me a stack of forms to be completed.

At the table there was another person working. I looked not knowing if I should start feeling the papers with my personal data in that kind of lack of privacy. The chance made it that the first form that I was supposed to sign was about the confidentiality of information that I was going to provide. After a few seconds on indecision, the other woman moved away from where I was and pulled all the papers spread in front of her towards the other end of the table.

I started to read the forms. I was advised by the person who gave me the forms that it is OK if I signed them and read them later. And if I were not married to my wife, or if I did not signed papers just on somebody's word, as I did when I bought the house, before I got in trouble with the bank, I would have probably did so. But because my wife would have been totally unhappy with me signing without reading, and I got burnt once with the bank, I decided to read every single line before signing. And I have to admit that the lecture was very interesting and extremely entertaining. The young woman was not really thrilled by my stubbornness, however she did not have to many choices...

The form I had in my hand was referring to the privacy

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