Beni

I checked it on Thursday.

Since 14 September 1991

Two brothers.
One long
argument.

They began by arguing about who would be born first. They never stopped predicting everything else.

Four minutes apartStill disputed
Beto

And I’ll be right anyway.

The signature panel

One question.
Two brothers.

Saturday. Two queues. Thirty-four years of practice at this.

Left queue.

Right queue. Move.

Beni timed the cashier · Beto spotted the chequebook
Beto’s queue won by four minutes.

Beni has pointed out, twice, that four minutes is also the margin he won by in 1991. Beto does not accept that either.

Episode one

Who gets out first?

Thirty-four years later, still not settled.

1

14 September 1991. Nobody had agreed the rules.

2

Bar Meléndez. This morning.

I was coming out first.

Based on what?

3

Head? Shoulders? Recorded time?

The part where I win.

4

Beni won by four minutes.

It is on the certificate.

Paperwork is not VAR.

Nothing was settled.

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.