In my Spanish class this morning we were practicing the grammatical structure used in Spanish when talking about hypothetical situations. My teacher kept pushing me for more examples, and I was struggling to come with some after the first rush of inspiration. So I made up one about growing horns and chasing Señora around the house…thinking I was talking about being a bit randy (or horny, if you prefer) which, lamentably, is occasionally hypothetical as I continue this head long rush of aging.
“Oh Señor, I am so sorry,” my teacher said to me. Apparently in Mexico and probably other Hispanic countries when they say a man has grown horns it means his woman is running around on him behind his back aka he is being cuckolded. But it can apply to the woman too. He showed me a painting by the Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, of herself, as a deer, with a huge rack of antlers and her body pierced by many arrows. Her husband, the Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera, was famously a less than faithful spouse.
Vive les différences culturelles.