"REMEMBERING VENUS"

"GOOD morning Papa!" Joaquin's cheerful greeting to his father that morning.

"It's good to see you today. Come on and eat and we have a lot to talk about," he told him.

It was a Saturday and because there was no work in the office, Joaquin woke up late than his usual five o'clock in the morning.

"Let me guess, it's about marriage, right?" he asked Joaquin Sr. with a wide smile.

That was when his father stared straight into his eyes. "You're not getting any younger son, do you think I don't know what you do to women?"

He shrugged then started eating breakfast. "Papa, I'm just being generous to them," he joked, winking at the old man.

"Get married," Joaquin Sr. replied rather briefly to him.

He stared at his father with amusement. "Papa the way you speak seems like it's so easy what you're asking me to do," he reasoned.