Anyway, me and the Portuguese were both quiet and he just looked at me, studying me.”
So you managed to find out where I live.I felt uncomfortable and decided to come clean.
Promise not to get mad if I tell you something, sir?” “Of course. There should be no secrets among friends.
“I haven’t shined any shoes today.” “I suspected that was the case.”
“But I really wanted to... Over this side no one needs their shoes dusted off. It’s only people who live near the highway.”
“But you could have come without lugging all that weight around, no?”
“If I didn’t lug all this weight around, I wouldn’t have been allowed out. I can’t wander off very far.”
“Every now and then I have to show my face at home, you see? To go further away, I have to pretend I’m working.”
He laughed at my logic. “If I’m working, they know I’m not getting up to mischief.”
“It’s better this way, because I don’t get beaten as much.” “I don’t believe you’re as naughty as you say you are.”
Then I went really serious. “I’m worthless, really bad.”
“That’s why it’s the devil that’s born in my heart on Christmas Day, not Baby Jesus, and I never get a single present.”
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