July 20, 2006

Me no speakee

So...here's something that boggled me.

I'm at work in the day job of retail. Two Mexican women come in. Now I get these on occasion but we make due. This one bothered me more than ever.

"Hello, welcome to (insert establishment name here)... What do you need today?"

"Hello...joo speaky spanee?"

"Ooooh... Uh gee... No. I don't. Sorry."

Now , I know I look a tad hispanic to some, but this next sentence started the synapses in my brain to electrify like that scene in Darkman.

"No?!? Soooo...WHY JOO NO SPEAKEE SPANEE??"

In my head...explosions are going off as my blood begins to boil and the thoughts race within my head.

"ohhh.. I dunno..." I think to myself, "maybe because I live in a country that's a major world superpower that has this little thing about speaking ENGLISH as a minor prerequisite when you come across it's borders??? Yet here you villaify me for not speaking your language naturally and fluently when I truly have no REASON too?!??!"

The balls of some people. Not for nothing, but the largest most widely used language above english is Chinese. So if I should know ANY second language it should be that...NOT "spanee". That irked me for days. It's not the first time either, as I said before. I can understand the idea behind the question, but to become indignant about it just floored me. Melting pot we are? Yes. Sesspool for the lazy who don't desire to assimilate our cultures yet demand rights and want to make money on our shores and take jobs away from our citizens? No. Shit people... Make an attempt to do as the Romans do when in Rome. Oh wait... this is futile. You can't read it anyway because I didn't write this in "spanee".

Posted by Darkstar at July 20, 2006 11:31 PM | TrackBack