Sunday, September 12, 2004

Bilingual Rejection

Walking on the Lower East Side, I passed a short, rotund couple in their 50's. Upon closer inspection, I realized that they were strangers, but that the man was trying to devise a way to become more intimate with the woman. He smiled as the slickest line he could think of came to his mind.

"Habla espanol?"

The woman's retort, in Spanish: "No! Yo hablo in-GLES!"

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