Serious Question
“Why are there so few pictures of women on the wall?” she asked, with bitterness dripping from every word. Armando opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out. Was she seriously asking this? She looked at him and waited expectantly, and then it dawned on him that this woman’s question had been completely facetious. And she expected an answer. He thought he could make it go away by nervously laughing, but he was wrong.