The piropos, the Spanish word for street pick-up lines, came fast and furious whenever my mother and I walked by the men in our neighborhood when I was a young boy.
My divorced mom was petite, attractive, with sparkling green eyes and long black hair down to her lower back. She was a man magnet, similar in looks in her early 30s to the actress Kate Winslet.
I don't remember exactly what was said to her, but they were far classier than the vulgar and sickening texts sent by disgraced University of Minnesota former athletic director Norwood Teague to one of his alleged sexual harassment victims.