What prank would Feijóo do to be punished for washing the breakfast, lunch and dinner dishes of all the inmates at his school in León?
In a talkative and autobiographical video, the PP candidate boasts that he was doing pranks but without explaining the one so severely punished. Are we talking about breaking the neck of a classmate, leaving written on the blackboard “Don Mariano, the one with the light cock” or placing a coin between the light bulb and the lamp holder to melt the leads of the educational center?
The very candidate knows that a Spaniard from his farm must have made a memorable prank, lest the voters take him for an old nerd, take a dislike to him and not vote for him.
If I were moderating a debate, I would ask the candidates what their biggest prank has been and that topical thing about whether they repent, providing the opportunity to apologize to the victims.
-Don Amiano, just kidding…
My hooligan career was modest. Some spit through the stairwell –knowing that the concierge would impute the events to Luisito, the building’s official hooligan–, disconnecting a cable from the motor and pouring sugar into the tank of the Latin teacher’s Seat 600 or phoning manufacturers of bearings. Kid stuff!
The bad thing is that there was always someone who took these things to heart and couldn’t stand jokes. A newlywed showed up at my grandmother’s home with a scowl and all because he had found a bearing on the terrace with a wrapped piece of paper that said: “Good aunt! I’m the one in the sixth building across the street” (unfortunately the message fell on the wrong balcony).
Of course, where they are given, they are taken and, like Aureliano Buendía, I still remember the afternoon that two big men from the stairs gave me a taste of a yellow and artisan liquid that was not beer…
I do not know if the best-prepared childhood in history continues to do pranks – without mediating the motive – and what is the protocol of educational and pedagogical institutions in the face of these transgressions. Where are the protocols…
