Comments on: You’re totally busted, dude.

By: heatherinparadise

heatherinparadise — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:37:00 +0000

As they say, Laura, you “learned it on the pillow.”

By: laura

laura — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:30:27 +0000

I love your blog! Whenever someone asks me where I learned all my spanish, I just point to my wedding ring, and say “I have the living dictionary at home!”

Laura in Coz

By: disenomiami cancun

disenomiami cancun — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:37:57 +0000

That moment makes the day! I used to live in Aruba and they does this all the time, (they speak, dutch, english, spanish and papiamento) sometimes I was at any “colectivo” or bus and they determinate which is my language and in a few minutes the whole crowd was ripping my off (those tourism this, those young guys that, you know) I just laughing because, I can understand mostly of the times and leave the bus saying “thanks for all your advices, bedankt voor al uw adviezen (dutch) and tanki por tur bo consehu (papiamento)

I know the feeling!

soon I will go to Playa del Carmen!

By: Mindy

Mindy — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:49:45 +0000

Classic. I love it when this stuff happens. The same has been true when my husband has been around people and they were speaking English. It has been pretty funny at times.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:49:31 +0000

Dog poop? Yum! I’ll take an ounce and a few crackers!

By: heatherinparadise

heatherinparadise — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:53:56 +0000

Thanks for your comments! Sarah, I have ALWAYS wanted to visit Oaxaca, hope to do so at some point in the next year or year and a half.

You just reminded me of another time I busted someone…there were a bunch of construction workers hanging out on the corner after working on a site near my house. M. and I were walking our dogs and of course, my dog decides to crap right across the street from these guys. As I whipped out my little baggie and cleaned up the poop, I heard the guys across the street joking, saying things like, “Oh, why is she picking that up? It’s for dinner, it’s a gringo delicacy,” while they all laughed. So when I crossed the street, I held the bag up to them and said, “I have enough to share if you’d like to try it.” They looked stunned for a second, then just “BWA HAHAHAHAHA!!!”

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:43:23 +0000

Heather, I love your blog! I live in Oaxaca and this happens to me all the time. I wonder why people never assume that, um, I might actually speak Spanish. I was walking the dog the other day (I have a big German Shepherd) and a group of high school boys started laughing and whispering at each other, “Give kisses to the perro! Give kisses to its owner!! Ohhh!” so I turned around and said, “Want some kisses from my perro?” and let the German Shepherd loose and they were all like, “AHHHHH!!” scattering in all directions. Good times.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:10:13 +0000

A guy I worked with some years ago was Hungarian. He was in an elevator in Seattle and two guys were discussing (in Hungarian) the large chest of a pretty girl in the elevator, of course assuming that no one would know Hungarian. Their secret language, right? Well, before my friend got out of the elevator he turned and said something like “they are gorgeous ripe melons, aren’t they” in Hungarian, and both guys were in utter shock.

But now I know why I need to keep on studying my spanish!

By: purpledragonfly

purpledragonfly — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:11:36 +0000

LMAO…too funny!

By: Jonna

Jonna — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:39:50 +0000

That’s priceless! Wayne’s right, holding my (ample) gut and laughing.