Efren Rodriguez leaves the table annoyed as his fellow players, drunk and laughing, shout “Zapato, get out.”
The 32-year-old has just suffered an embarrassing defeat in a game of dominoes in the little fishing village of Chichiriviche on Venezuela’s Caribbean coast.
Zapato means shoe in Spanish and in dominoes is the equivalent of a “duck” in cricket a score of zero.
Dominoes “is the favorite pastime for everyone . in the rich people’s clubs just like poor neighborhoods, in urban centers and rural areas,” wrote late former Venezuelan president Rafael Caldera in the prologue for Alfredo Fernandez Porras’ book The Art
Efren Rodriguez leaves the table annoyed as his fellow players, drunk and laughing, cry out “Zapato! Get out!” The 32-year-old has just suffered an embarrassing defeat in a game of dominoes in the little fishing village of Chichiriviche on Venezuela’s Caribbean coast. Zapato means shoe in Spanish and in dominoes is the equivalent of a “duck” in cricket – a score of zero.