Saturday, November 15, 2025

Two occurrences at a birthday party…

…for the one (gay) (Brazilian) (STEM post-doc) who I know from around town:

1) When people are out drinking on the porch, a (Brazilian) friend of his talks about coming home from the clubs in Fortaleza when the sun is coming up, and one of his friends was leaning out the window and puking, and this one (older) (poor) woman was walking by on the sidewalk to go to work in the early morning – “the working class of the working class,” he was like – and she stopped when the bus stopped and she took his friend’s face in her hands and she stroked it and she was like, “It’s okay, it’s okay, we’ve all been there, honey.”

2) Towards the end of the night when everyone was leaving, a (Chinese from China) (beginning her PhD in the social sciences) student asked the birthday celebrant what his birthday wishes were, and when he started laughing and smiling lasciviously, she immediately corrected herself and was like, “I mean, what are your PG-13 wishes?”

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