The grass
17 January 2010

In one of the medical classes, teacher turns to one of the students and asks, “How many kidneys do we have?”

“Four,” the student said.

“Four?” asked the teacher with the arrogance of people who take pleasure in pointing out other people’s mistakes, “Bring in some grass, we have a donkey in the classroom,” says the teacher to his assistant.

“I’ll take coffee!” joked the student to the teacher’s assistant.

The teacher became angry and ordered the student out of the classroom. The student was the humorist Aparício Torelly Aporelly (1895-1971), aka Itararé Baron.

As he was leaving the classroom, the student still had the nerve to correct the angry teacher, saying, “Sir, you asked me how many kidneys ‘we have’. ‘We’ have four: you have two and I have two. ‘We’ is plural. Bon appetite, and enjoy your grass.”

Life demands more understanding than knowledge. Sometimes, people think they have the right to underestimate others just because they have (or “believe” they have) a bit more knowledge.

Bring on the grass!!

Bishop Macedo