This Christmas was spent at my Aunt’s house, where her daughter-in-law’s family visited from Brazil. My cousin and his wife recently had a beautiful baby girl named Olivia. Normally, I find newborns repugnant. They all look the same and all they do is defecate whenever and wherever they please. This is usually accompanied by ear splitting screaming. Babies are the only things that we tolerate this from. If I sat on 7th Ave outside a Starbucks screaming and pooping, I’d be carted away.
So my father and I are in the kitchen talking when my cousin’s father, who, unlike his family from Brazil, speaks English fairly well, comes in and starts speaking to my dad.
“My mother wants me to tell you that you have beautiful sons.”
“Haha, oh thanks!”
“She says that they are so beautiful, they can never come to Brazil.”
“…What?”
“If they come to Brazil, the girls, they will be all over them because they are so beautiful. They will never go near Brazilian boys again and your boys will come back married.”
[hearty laughter] “Oh is that so! Well how about that! So what about me? Can I go to Brazil??”
[short silence] “Yes, you can go. You’ll be fine.”
Brazilians are hilarious.
December 31, 2007 at 1:34 am
OUCH.
But I’d still go anyway. I hear good things about Brazilians. If you’re looking for International I wouldn’t come here, no hot guys. At all.
Golden Compass!!! I had to go see it yesterday withOUT your commentary.