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May 04, 2005
My Visit to the Golden Arches
I don't know why I forgot to post this earlier...
I guess my rant about the parking spots led me to forget my original posting.
I went to McDonald's for breakfast. Even though I live in a section of Nashville heavily populated by Spanish speakers, I've not had too much trouble communicating (note: I speak very little Spanish). I've been to the McDonalds near my apartment many times and never faced a language barrier, but there must have been several Spanish speakers through the Drive-Thru that morning. Either that, or they just simply felt like sticking their Spanish speaking worker on the drive-thru line. When I pulled up to place my order, I heard something like this:
Her: "Hola. Bienvenido mumble, mumble, McDonalds, mumble mumble. Que mumble?"
Me: "Ur, ug, hmmm, uno, um, dos breakfast burritos, um, and, um, grande agua."
Her: "Mumble, mumble, two, mumble, breakfast burrito, mumble, large water. Mumble, mumble?"
Me: (not sure at this point if she's speaking in Spanish or just the garbled English that comes out of those speakers) "Um, yeah, right. Si. Correcto (just made that word up). Thanks. Gracias."
Her: De nada.
Sheesh. I should've taken Spanish instead of German
in high school. A lot of good Guten Tag has done me
here...
Posted by Anna at May 4, 2005 04:05 PM
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I also took German in high school, und Deutsch macht viel Spass!!! Instead of admitting that German is a useless language in the States, which it probably is, my German-speaking buddies and I like to treat it as a secret language. We'll get some of the funniest looks when we're communicating in German in public. It's great.
Posted by: Carrie at May 8, 2005 10:22 PM
Seems to me like someone else should be working on their English.
Posted by: cube at May 11, 2005 11:47 AM
Oh, man, when you mentioned Broadway and I-40 in another post, my first thought was Nashville, then I thought, nah, that could be a lot of places. I lived in Nashville like 15 years ago. They have Spanish speaking areas now? That's a shift.
Posted by: BetaCandy at May 20, 2005 01:55 PM