The students kept yelling out questions, and I kept firing back. Finally, a student called out that he had a question, and the teacher told him to ask. The kid yelled out, “How many times a day do you masturbate?” I was certain that the teacher was going to annihilate this kid. Instead he looked at me and lifted his head as if to say, “What’s your answer?” “Si pienso en tu madre, llego hasta siete. A mí me dicen ‘mano muerto.’” I spat it out so fast it was like the universe answered for me. It wasn’t even me. “If I think about your mother, I can do it seven times. They call me dead hand.” That
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