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Old Apr 4, 2020, 11:45 pm
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Loren Pechtel
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Originally Posted by bitterproffit
Growing up in Miami. Dark skinned, living in a neighborhood that was about 80% Latino. People would stop and ask directions all the time and get so mad when I told them I didn't speak Spanish well enough to answer.

They always would look at me like I was lying. LOL
Long ago when we lived in Utah for a couple of years multiple people tried to speak Spanish to my wife--a language that at the time she didn't know a single word of. They were surprised, but always quickly understood when I pointed out that she's Chinese, not Mexican. (At that time I did most of the speaking for her, at that point we still often carried the dictionary when we went out.)
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