Thursday, March 11, 2010

Habla Ingles?

Hi, I am an American, I love being an American. All my life, I have been surrounded by people who spoke American. Of course I mean the Queen's English, but hell, its always been American to me. Now, I live and work around Miami, unfortunately, nobody told most of the residents, that this is indeed, America. Almost everybody speaks Spanish! And I mean ALMOST everybody.

There is a small pocket of us "gringos" to try and keep a small semblance, of American life. Our house is the black sheep of our neighborhood. My neighbors,are disappointed in just about everything about us, from the color of our house (yellow), the football we cheer for (real football, not soccer), and the old rock and roll I play a little too loud once in a while. Oh, yeah, did I fail to mention that we speak English?

Actually, my neighbors, are pretty cool, even if we are different, and they do put up with things like my step son's broken down truck (that he swears he's going to put on the road) sitting in my front yard for six months. Like I said, we're trying to promote the American way.

Well, my wife has had enough of it. Since she can't go up north (easily), she found herself a job bartending at this little old red neck bar. Its very nice, and very white, and everybody does speak English...for now. She said to me "Everybody knows, that they have to speak English if they want any service, I don't take any orders in Spanish". Right! Until a Latino buys the place, then she'll be asking every person that walks in the place "habla Ingles?"






5 comments:

Mike's Common Sense said...

Hi Cupcake! You are sooo right! Thanks for stopping by.

Ryhen said...

haha. Habla Ingles? You crack me up. lol

hey Mike, sorry for being away for so long. I just had some issues that needed to be dealt with. My apologies for missing your previous posts as well. This one kicks ass though.

Mike's Common Sense said...

HI Ryhen so good to see you again. I hope all is well. Glad you liked this silly article.

Adnohr said...

I went shopping in a large international store last week and, although I live in Quebec, I heard maybe 4 couples in the crowd (and it was a CROWD!!) speaking either French or English. The predominant language was Arabic.
I'd prefer to be working with your wife. It would be my choice of the two cultures (if one had to be made)in our melting pot of nationalities.
Adnohr

Mike's Common Sense said...

HI Adnohr! My wife would LOVE to have you work with her. She says she'd love to meet you. (She loves your stories)