"In that case, I guess that's all I have to say..." after that, a strange silence arose in the room, my eyes shifted from his shoe, to the clock on the wall and his hand... So, to break tension, I felt bold enough to ask something that was causing me curiosity...
"Can I ask what happened to your hand, sir?" I noticed that the ring finger on his right hand was shorter than normal and it had no nail...
"This? Oh well, that was many years ago, when we still lived in Colombia. Salomé was a baby... I have always had physical jobs. I was inspecting some equipment but the negligence of a coworker cost me half of my finger. I got an indemnization, but it was equivalent to my salary, so it was not a lot... How ironic that the hands of the workers who have to risk them doing things that none wants
