14 September 1991. Nobody had agreed the rules.
I checked it on Thursday.
They began by arguing about who would be born first. They never stopped predicting everything else.
And I’ll be right anyway.
Saturday. Two queues. Thirty-four years of practice at this.
Left queue.
Right queue. Move.
Beni has pointed out, twice, that four minutes is also the margin he won by in 1991. Beto does not accept that either.
Thirty-four years later, still not settled.
14 September 1991. Nobody had agreed the rules.
Bar Meléndez. This morning.
I was coming out first.
Based on what?
Head? Shoulders? Recorded time?
The part where I win.
Beni won by four minutes.
It is on the certificate.
Paperwork is not VAR.
It is never settled. That is the point of them. There are thirty-four more years of this, and a drawer full of notebooks that prove it.