Comment on Your Problems Solved by Mary Killen
(10/05/2003)
I see that a couple of unidentified actors have asked Mary Killen if she can tell them –
Mary Killen has, as usual, offered an ingenious solution to the supposed problem, but I cannot understand why the enquirers would expect Brazilians to spend less time in the loo than do English...1) Is it a Brazilian custom to go to the loo for half an hour at a time? and2) How they can tactfully tell their Brazilian help that they wouldappreciate his doing his business in his own home before coming to them?

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