My resume (4)

One of those memory lapses again. At some point we were in Puerto Rico. We stayed with a friend of his who was in charge of building low income housing in San Juan. We lived there for awhile in Guynabo. They had two lovely girls and in fact his wife was a "hand model". One day she had to work late and called to ask me to cook rice for the children. I had seen her do it many times. She had a big black cast iron pot that she cooked it in. "Fill the pot with water , dump in a few handfuls of rice and cook it till it's done".
The girls were bilingual. If children took their classes in Spanish, then they had to take English as a second language and visa versa. Complete sentences from them often intermixed both languages. So, I served the rice and the oldest asked me, "what's a word that's worse than awful?". We all laughed but to this day I still use that phrase even though I am probably the only one that sees the real humor in it.
Needless to say, my fourth job was not as a cook. It was, in fact, as a movie extra. The model and I dressed up every day and played cards in a casino. The movie was Che! and starred Omar Sharif and Jack Palance. We went to several cast parties. I can assure you that Omar Sharif was incredibly handsome, even more so in person than on the big screen. I will always remember those gorgeous eyes.