Entry # 5 Carol 4

Carol insults everyone, and when he is nervous, he gets worse. The cab driver enjoys every word that comes out of my grandfather’s mouth, even though some are insulting for him. He doesn’t laugh instantly, but when he drops Carol off at “La Tinaja”, Gerardo’s restaurant, he can’t control it, he cannot avoid it, it strikes him like a lightning, and he laughs like a madman.
The cab drivers love him. He makes up stories as well. Once, there was an ugly lady taking her dog out for a walk. “Look how sweet the lady looks, they are mother and son, did you know?” carol would ask the cab driver as they turn on the car and drive towards “La Tinaja”. The cab driver would not speak, he would just accommodate the baseball cap he was wearing and look at Carol with a strange look in his eyes and a unique smile, moving his head from left to right as if to say, “No, but please tell me how the hell can that lady be the biological mother of the dog.”
“Look to the front! Don’t look at me, we’ll crash! Well, doctors are impressed with this, they couldn’t believe it either. The idea of a female giving birth to a dog just didn’t fit in their scientific minds. I too, was impressed when I got the news, but I believe it now, just looks at them, they are identical! Look at the lady’s face and the dogs face. Ah? Don’t you see the similarities? She is an ugly lady let me tell you, probably too ugly to find a human husband. She started liking dogs. Doctors call that type of sexuality Doggosexual, or when a human is attracted to dogs. She probably has lots of lovers. I can’t understand what it is that she likes about dogs. She is a Doggosexual, that’s more amazing than her son being a dog! Don’t you think?”
The driver takes off his cap, scratches his head, and puts the cap back on. Carol starts forming an evil grin in his face, as he usually does. He sees the driver hesitating and doubting on whether the story is true or false. For Carol, the driver’s hesitation is a sweet victory. He loves making people think “Wow, how can this be possible?”
Carol walks into “La Tinaja” cursing like a madman. Cursing about anything that crosses his mind: the motorcycles, and the holes in the street. He’s got a reserved spot where he sits for a while, observing the way people work and listening to what these people talk about. He sees people come in, go out. It’s always the same. The phones ring, they make phone calls. He observes and listens.
After a while, he gets bored, tired. He asks for someone to call a cab for him. The same story occurs again: drivers fight for being the one that gets to pick up Dr. Rumié, he gets in cursing his life, the driver’s life, the taxi, the city, and the entire world. He is then taken back home.