Writer's Block: Listening In
Jan. 24th, 2009 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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A couple years back my husband and I went with some friends from work to Jackpot for a weekend gambling trip. It was a group package thing that included a bus ride there and back.
We were all seated in the back of the bus, taking up most of the seats back there. The closest people to us were some people who didn't speak much english. In fact, they spent most of their trip speaking spanish to each other.
As it turns out, they didn't realize we could understand them. You pick up a few things working with school kids who're learning english as a second language.
They'd spent the entire trip talking about us. It's hard to ignore after spending a couple hours inadvertently listening to it. How fat we all were, us disgusting examples of americans. We must be so lazy...
It just went on and on. Not one of us took the time to let them know we understood them until when we got off the bus when we arrived there (as luckily they didn't ride the bus with us going back). It was one of our group, who is actually our training supervisor at work (who incidentally was the only one of us who could speak it fluently), who told them in spanish as we got off the bus, "It was nice sitting with you. Thank you for such a pleasant trip."
A couple years back my husband and I went with some friends from work to Jackpot for a weekend gambling trip. It was a group package thing that included a bus ride there and back.
We were all seated in the back of the bus, taking up most of the seats back there. The closest people to us were some people who didn't speak much english. In fact, they spent most of their trip speaking spanish to each other.
As it turns out, they didn't realize we could understand them. You pick up a few things working with school kids who're learning english as a second language.
They'd spent the entire trip talking about us. It's hard to ignore after spending a couple hours inadvertently listening to it. How fat we all were, us disgusting examples of americans. We must be so lazy...
It just went on and on. Not one of us took the time to let them know we understood them until when we got off the bus when we arrived there (as luckily they didn't ride the bus with us going back). It was one of our group, who is actually our training supervisor at work (who incidentally was the only one of us who could speak it fluently), who told them in spanish as we got off the bus, "It was nice sitting with you. Thank you for such a pleasant trip."
