Feedback | 17 May 2003

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 –

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?

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 people, nor can I understand how the enquirers can imagine that a Brazilian, unlike the English, is capable of effectively using the loo at whatever time his employer, and not his own constitution, deems appropriate.
As an alternative however, perhaps the two actors should consider the remedy that I have seen in pubs in Australia.