Being tolerant and ordering a dang sandwich in my own country are two different things. Just because I walk into an establishment in the country where I was born and can't conduct business due to the lack of English-speaking employees... I refuse to see this as something I lack. Am I alone on this one? Really?
No, you're not alone. I am not willing to learn another language just so I can order a dang hamburger and get ketchup when I ask for it instead of a straw!
Michelle ... you're starting to scare me ..... it's like you're becoming a giddy little teenage school girl that has wet panties whenever Rich speaks....... :jester::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
I have yet to walk into a fast food place where I could not understand a word of what they say. If they are speaking a completely different language, then I see your point. But to complain just because someone has a heavy accent is just plain silly. People ALL the time tell me I talk too fast and they sometimes have a hard time with my accent and I was born and raised here in NC. It only takes a few seconds to say excuse me or how ever you want to say HUH? What? Say What? What was that? Could you repeat?? Not hard to do! Maybe it's much easier to complain! Just my opinion!
... yeah. I guess if my friend Juan came on this board and started commenting to threads in broken English or all Spanish we should all feel that we are the one's lacking.
Reread my post Rich.... It says personally I feel I am. I mean I know everyone else is perfect .... it's just the way I challenge myself.
Ok, that was just flat out rude and I do not appreciate it. I'm going to reserve the rest of my comment because I don't want to get in a ****ing match with anyone today.
i agree with you for the most part but like KDC what bothers me is the ones that do not want to learn the native language and berate others for not learning their's. This comes from working a job when i first moved down here working with the public and there were those that came in that would get truly mad because i did not know Spanish and as my DH says the workers in the construction field he works in could care less about learning English cause a lot of them are just here for the short term till they get caught and have to go back home. i did work in International Sales for quite a few years and yes i loved learning about the culture of other countries and people and they were always patient with me as i was with them in trying to communicate - i just experienced a different attitude when i moved here and it can be frustrating. As for the drive ins, if after several tries i cannot get the attendent to understand my order i just leave and go somewhere else, easily solved:lol:
as long as they can understand me when I place my order, I could care less who works where and where they came from.
LMAO!!!!!!!!!! Are you serious!!!!! You've said worse things to people on here and have had worse things said TO YOU..... Wow..... but I'm still laughing.
That about sums it up. Like I said, this is the US, and although I certainly do know a little Spanish, I am not ordering in Spanish at my local fast food place. It's the business's responsibility to cater to the CUSTOMER, not the other way around.
The way I see it... You are working in the USA... if you don't know or care to learn English than its on those who choose that route to be illiterate in our country... I see no need to learn the foreign language to get thru the day in the USA... Its said foreigners responsibility to adapt to the way of our life not us adapt to their way of life.
