Don Ricardo update

Last Thursday, I didn't hold my youth entrepreneurship class as usual, because I was off in Cajamarca for the first day of Camp VALOR. Consequently, I did not call Don Ricardo on Thursday morning to remind him to leave my classroom open. Yesterday however, it was back to classes as normal, so around 11:00am I dialed Don Ricardo's number. Once I made my usual request that he leave my door open at 3:30 that afternoon, he deviated from our usual script:

"But where were you on Thursday? You didn't call so I thought you'd abandoned me!"

I got a huge kick out of this comment, because it proves two key aspects of my previously untested beliefs about Don Ricardo's and my relationship:
1. He is fully aware that my classes meet every Tuesday and Thursday, and is capable of remembering this on his own.
2. That despite this awareness, if I didn't call him, he would not leave the classroom door open (case in point: last Thursday).

I'm not sure what my best janitorial friend is going to do when my entrepreneurship course comes to an end next week... I may have to invent a reason to keep using that classroom just to give him the satisfaction he clearly derives from receiving my daily reminders :)