07-09-2014, 12:59 AM
One more Hispanic story and I promise to back out of this thread.....for 24 hrs or so at least.
My first college intern came into my office one day to make her insurance payment. I had no clue she was Hispanic except her last name was O*t*g* like the taco shells. She was blond haired and blue eyed and went to our local private college. She flipped me out when she had to call her Grandmother in Florida to get the policy number and rattled off a long run on sentence 3 minutes long in Spanish.
I was impressed and redialed the number she called to get her number to interview for my intern job. Her Grandmother did not speak a lick of English. Long story short(er) I hired her. She worked part time for me for 2 years while she got her BA and then another 2 while she got her Masters.
She was Cuban and her father spent time in prison in Cuba awaiting execution----for going to school. He escaped and got to Miami on a 5 foot raft in the early 1980s. He couldn't speak one word of English but within 18 months, finished his masters in accounting and learned English on the side.....while working 4 part time jobs and basically living under a set of stairs. He worked for the government in Florida up until 2 yrs ago. Her Grandfather came into the USA via Mexico and was a town manager.
I have never watched 2 shady Mexicans tuck their tails and run out of my office like I did the day my coworker---again blonde blue eyed GORGEOUS Cuban play the Southern Bell English girl totally turn Cuban and call these guys out on some fraud they were attempting in a LOUD language I didn't understand
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I loved learning about the culture too! I never knew that Cubans hated Mexicans. I never knew that South Americans hated Mexicans. I never knew pretty much non Mexican Hispanics hated Mexican Hispanics. Cubans don't eat a lot of beans. They prefer potatoes and onions. And there is nothing more redneck than your family driving up from Miami to NC with a dead pig on the roof of your car for a pig pickin aka celebration with family.
To this day I only know a few Spanish word but the one I use the most is Placa aka license plate
My first college intern came into my office one day to make her insurance payment. I had no clue she was Hispanic except her last name was O*t*g* like the taco shells. She was blond haired and blue eyed and went to our local private college. She flipped me out when she had to call her Grandmother in Florida to get the policy number and rattled off a long run on sentence 3 minutes long in Spanish.
I was impressed and redialed the number she called to get her number to interview for my intern job. Her Grandmother did not speak a lick of English. Long story short(er) I hired her. She worked part time for me for 2 years while she got her BA and then another 2 while she got her Masters.
She was Cuban and her father spent time in prison in Cuba awaiting execution----for going to school. He escaped and got to Miami on a 5 foot raft in the early 1980s. He couldn't speak one word of English but within 18 months, finished his masters in accounting and learned English on the side.....while working 4 part time jobs and basically living under a set of stairs. He worked for the government in Florida up until 2 yrs ago. Her Grandfather came into the USA via Mexico and was a town manager.
I have never watched 2 shady Mexicans tuck their tails and run out of my office like I did the day my coworker---again blonde blue eyed GORGEOUS Cuban play the Southern Bell English girl totally turn Cuban and call these guys out on some fraud they were attempting in a LOUD language I didn't understand
.I loved learning about the culture too! I never knew that Cubans hated Mexicans. I never knew that South Americans hated Mexicans. I never knew pretty much non Mexican Hispanics hated Mexican Hispanics. Cubans don't eat a lot of beans. They prefer potatoes and onions. And there is nothing more redneck than your family driving up from Miami to NC with a dead pig on the roof of your car for a pig pickin aka celebration with family.
To this day I only know a few Spanish word but the one I use the most is Placa aka license plate