Summary

While eating at a McDonald’s in Managua, Nicaragua – “the only Communist-run McDonald’s ever” (3) – the narrator is watched closely by a soldier as she goes to the toilet. Her narration comments on how there is no toilet paper, and very little else of comfort or practicality “in the hyper-new, all-leftist future coming … at the rate of rock-n-roll” (5). She finds herself unable to keep the soldier waiting any longer, and comes out of the toilet, pretending to be excited to see him.

The narrator and the soldier have sex in his rooms, the narrator commenting on how men all become children again when they interact with a woman’s breasts. She also comments on how, as usual, she “wept and sniffled” through the whole experience (6). When they are finished, the soldier attempts to take the documents that identify the narrator as...