Originally Posted by
Need
I don't know about OP's wife, but if it had happened to my wife and her friends, she will never stay at that hotel again. Once she was in a bank and the teller asked her if she is a "mail ordered bride" just because of her Russian accent. She never went back to that bank again. Judging someone just by accent or color of the skin is just plain wrong.
Checking in at the hospital in the midst of labor, the admitting staff asked American-born/Chinese descent Mrs. Jailer to answer questions while she was power-breathing. Receiving no answer they asked, “Lady, do you speak English?”
To this day, 21 years later, when having a discussion with my wife that appears to me, at any rate, to make no sense I always ask, “Lady, do you speak English?” I do watch my back for a few days afterwards; you know how those foreign Orientals do hold a grudge.