Friday 30 November 2018

How Many of You?

How many engineers does it take to swap a light bulb?



Three: two to hold the chair and one to keep the light bulb firm as the chair holders go around in circles until the light bulb is firmly attached to the socket.








I Am Who I Am

It is a boarding house and that means that you can hear your next-door neighbor fart or tie his belt up.


He was on the mobile to the back of the other bedroom. I heard because I was in that bedroom; in the other bedroom. 


He said: Are you guys gonna dress smart?


...


He said: Right, then I will go the way I am.


Monday 23 July 2018

The Name of the Family




My good mother always told me: Marcia, my dear daughter, you do not denounce your relatives at the police station because there are more things that should matter, things beyond their crimes, so say your surname.


That is when I started thinking that my surname was really important.


I never saw it in the social columns of the newspaper and Rio de Janeiro was always completely crazy about what they call socialites.


Socialities are basically people who are always invited to attend parties that matter, meaning those that appear in the dominant media.


I had to go through December to agree with mum: every family in the Country seemed to say, in loud and good sound, and every year, at that height, that there could be no Christmas without a Pinheiro.


(Pinheiro means pine/xmas tree in English and my name is Marcia Pinheiro)