Today, I was at a mall. A woman stopped by me, said slowly and loudly, in Spanish "baño?" Knowing a bit of Spanish, I nodded and pointed the restrooms out for her. She then mutters about "dang Mexicans and their inability to speak English". I'm not even Latina. I'm Irish-American. FML
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Today, a customer came in who only spoke Spanish. I speak Spanish rather well so I helped the customer. She ended up buying $2300 worth of stuff. I got written up because not speaking English apparently "has the potential be offensive to other customers if they are not able to understand you." FML
Today, a lady at the clothing store told me to, “Stop speaking 'Mexicano', this is America!” when I was talking on the phone. I actually speak Portuguese. When I pointed this out, she verbally tortured me and threatened to, “Call the cops” if I didn’t leave her store for, “making her feel threatened.” FML
Today, I checked in a group of men from Mexico. I speak just enough Spanish to realize they're discussing my breasts. I have to stand there smiling while checking in three more people. FML
Today, my sister told me about her upcoming trip to Mexico. I asked her how she was going to do anything without knowing any Spanish. She told me she's "just going to read their lips". FML
Today, I was talking to a smokin' hot Cuban sorority girl. She told me her mom only speaks Spanish, so she translates for her. Without thinking I said, "Oh like Chewbacca and Han Solo?" FML
Today, we had a substitute teacher. She was taking attendance and had trouble pronouncing my last name. When I corrected her, I heard her mutter under her breath about, “Goddamn Mexican immigrants…” I’m from Greek ancestry, born in the USA. FML
Today, a gorgeous woman on a train told her friend she thought I was hot in Spanish, assuming I was a dumb gringo tourist. In fact, I speak Spanish fluently, my wife is Colombian, and she was standing right next to me. My wife can’t rationalize my street value, and made me sleep on the fold out. FML
Today, I was at the airport trying to help a man get to the right terminal. When he finished he turned to tell me "Don't worry, your English is pretty good, considering you're not American". English is my only language. FML
Today, my mom parked in a handicapped space because, "the Spanish people are taking over everything." FML
Today, while working at Subway I joked with a customer asking him if he was going to order in Spanish. The women in front of him began yelling about how I was being racist and told my manager that I needed to be fired. The customer I was joking with was my Spanish teacher. FML
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rukusrazor 0
FHL. That was your opportunity to tell her how much of a racist **** she is in plain English.
waxstigmata 0
what a sad and pathetic life she must live, don't worry, bad things tend to happen to people like that
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cadburyegg 0
I'm black Irish and I've had people ask me if I'm Mexican, solely based on the dark hair. People are so ignorant.
amykillswitch 0
Wow she sucks at being a racist. When I used to work at a pharmacy, I overheard a lady complaining to the manager how "grape stompers" and other ethnicities should learn to understand english before working with the public just because I didn't understand her question the first time she asked (the bitch was a grade-A mumbler). My manager had even had to ask her to repeat herself which pissed the lady off even more. When I go home I look up "grape stomper". Apparently its a racial slur for Italians. I don't have a drop of Italian in me.
i_am_not_me 0
I personally think it'd be hilarious to go around throwing racist comments toward people that are painfully obviously not that race/ethnicity.
tyl_fml 0
Yea agree with #180, and this is my recent story. (I'm an asian BTW, from head to toe) I was out with a few friends at a park. As we are about to leave I gather up all the track and walked over to the trash can to throw it away. On the way back, there were these group of red necks yelling at me "hey, where is my beer?" not wanting to ruin my day I ignored them and kept on walking. Another yelled out "What's the problem don't you speak spanish...?" I kept on walking whiling thinking, either they are just really bad at been racist or I actually look more hispanic then I think (which I don't at all). Couple second later the same one that made the last comment finally realized he made and mistake and yelled again "oh um....don't speak english??" I actually had a good come back but I was too amazed at how dumb they can be to say anything back...
poopooface 0
That lady is definitely effed in the head. I'm sure a lot of Mexican people can at least hold a conversation in English though. I mean, think about it. If someone came up to you and asked you something in your native language.. you'd reply in your native language, right? If she at least made an effort to ask in English I'm sure they would've understood. Ugh makes me so angry to imagine that people like these exist... and they're all over the place. So um... FYL because you live around retards like those.
PotatoBlankey39 2
Dude... I'm Irish American myself.... That's insulting. I'm sorry you had to deal with that racism!
conor1423 0
you should have slapped her across the face...sounds like she deserved it!
lwdjaymac 1
#172 You should make sure you haven't made any grammatical mistakes of your own before chastising others. "I could really care less of what you look like but would rather focus on working that noggin." That sentence is nonsensical; if you COULD care less, you obviously care somewhat. I think you were trying to say that you couldn't care less what he/she looks like.
jaberhollae 0
To numbers 173 and 186 Thank you for the corrections. I will take your advice for future reference. I am in the learning process and am grateful for your desire to improve my syntax.
MarisaHS 3
People need to just stop being racist.