Which Reminds Me

Yes, interesting how, due to a fluke of blood chemistry, I seem to belong to a different family than my own sister.

Which Reminds Me

Yes, I am reminded of a time when I was 9 or 10 years old living in El Salvador, in a house where our maid's name was Betty, as also my mother's name is Betty. One day our maid Betty was reading to us a letter from a lover and somehow the way she was reading it made me think for a moment that it was directed to me, but no, at the end of the letter she explained that the letter was for her, from some guy who lived down the street. Silly me, I almost thought the letter was for me, but no, that would be ridiculous. 

Betty from Santa Ana was our maid during the first term, but when we returned for the second term my mother refused to rehire her.

Which Reminds Me

Yes, it happens that many years ago I did once read your chatterbox book but, anyway, I have no desire to have any personal connection to this type of dreary motormouth politics.

Which brings up the question of whether your ex- is somehow related to the two Johnson brothers who at one time lived somewhere near here, not that I cared about that. They were from an alternate universe that was of no interest to me. I do not wish my life to be interpreted through their blurry lens of worthless garbage.

Which Reminds Me

Yes, sorry, I had not realized that you had mistaken me for, or perhaps I should say that I am not sure when I first realized that you had mistaken me for a high school classmate, Ron-It, who, I have no idea what is going on with her, beyond her being maybe a royalist, because we really never talked. However, the little brownies seem to be very fond of her although myself not being really one of them, what would I know about that? I have not much thought of them but, incidentally, I figured out that she was Jewish and is part of the Jewish community there in that country. I read in the newspaper that El Salvador bought some new airplanes for their Air Force from Israel, so obviously they have a close relationship with the Jewish community that is understandably important to them, even if really our paths do not have much occasion to cross, ourselves being there to work with the Christian churches, obviously. If you were to ask me about that I could easily explain, but it is hard for me to get a word in edgewise with some of those people. Needless to say. 

Although now that the Arabs are running the show there, probably some things have changed, and I am not quite sure how that affects their relationship with Israel. Some people were trying to throw me to Honduras, which is a bit awkward because, although not meaning to be rude to Honduras, I was never there and do not know anything about that. Where did all of these Honduran people come from and why do they think they know something about that?

We once drove through a small piece of Honduras on our way to visit Nicaragua, but that was before the soccer war, after which time the borders were closed and it was too complicated to think of going to Honduras from El Salvador at that time. It was easier to visit Guatemala, which we did often enough. 

Which Reminds Me

Yes, someone is reminding me of the time during high school when my sister concocted a prank in which she and other girl in her class made some phony love letters signed by an anonymous lover, which they sent to their classmate Lori, and which I heard apparently really had Lori going for a while, and then later my sister had to go and apologize to Lori for the prank, thus putting a probably unpleasant ending to that. But of course none of that was my problem. I only heard about that after the fact. My mother told me about that. I do not see any need for myself to apologize for something that I had nothing to do with.

Which Reminds Me

Yes, why is this little brat always pestering me. Encouraging that only makes it worse and likewise ignoring that accomplishes the same. Either way, my life becomes a complete misery if I give in to that, and if I don't give in to that, the same result.

Which Reminds Me

Yes, you can only imagine what I might have heard, and the only thing that I have to offer is the Spanish/ English dictionary. Seriously. I am not kidding around. There is only the dictionary.