Just Bitchin’ About…Foreign Language
Picking up my car today and waiting to pay for it’s service I stood in a line about 4 people deep. The line was not moving at all, Why? Why? Because the lady checking out spoke NO English and the poor service checkout girl was trying as hard as she could to understand her. She had to call an advisor over who also couldn’t understand her. He was calling one of the Hispanic technicians over to translate what she was saying. Please note: the customer understood the service people enough to nod her head in agreement and to shake her head when she wasn’t satisfied with their responses: which were in ENGLISH! I have three things to say about this:
1) if you live in Anerica and understand the language enough to agree or disagree, why can’t you speak it?
2). If you live in Anerica why can’t you speak the language?
3) if this lady was taking up this much time, why couldn’t the girl or her supervisor go to the other cash register and check everyone else out while they waited for someone to translate?
What is wrong with these people? Is it not common sense? Is it really THAT hard? I think my housekeeper said it best one day to some painters we had at our house.., the Hispanic painters were asking her a question in Spanish, she didn’t understand them. They told her that she should speak Spanish. She looked at them, and deadpanned, “You live in America, you speak American!”
“Quit your bitchin’…that’s why I’m here!”
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