Trafika Europe 14 - Italian Piazza

Frank Iodice

thought that: 1. Maybe the priest was also a banker. 2. Some bankers are also priests. 3. Al l priests are in real ity bankers masquerading as priests. Anyway, I decided to overlook the subject of banking–I didn’t want to risk getting into a serious argument and dashing everything—and I postponed al l objecting. “You’l l take care of the chi ldren with particular problems since you have worked with cases of that kind, and there are loads of cases of that kind where you’ve come from,” he said, and laughed whi le speaking, “then maybe they ’l l assign you other duties.” “No problem, Father.” “And stop cal l ing me that, you’re not bel ievable.” “How should I cal l you then? It ’s your professional title, there are people who’ve never had one, l ike me: you’ve no idea how I would have l iked to be a professional , to have a job that ’s recognized and wel l paid, to travel around, doused in perfume and carrying a briefcase with samples and coming off as so secure that I’d get a subtle cerebral pleasure every time I meet a stupid custodian and throw my car keys to him on the counter so that he can park it for me!”

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