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?
Disagree with half of it, enjoy reading all of it
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