Sunday, February 7, 2010

Are we in the USA or Mexico

Not so sure how this will go over but at least I will speak what is on my mind, forgive me if I offend anyone.
First of all I love MY country and all what we stand for, well for the most part anyway. But I am having trouble with the language department of the people "Coming to America"( I love that song by Neil Diamond and the movie he was in singing it).
I don't understand why the Spanish speaking people are not required to learn English and to speak it in a public place if and when they become American citizens. Where I work we get several Spanish speaking people that can not even communicate with me because they don't understand nor can they speak English. Well it looks like I am playing sign language games with them to even tell them where the rest room is. Then they come in with their 3 to 4 kids each and they are very unruly and can't speak nor understand either. So it is like a mad house when they come in and let the kids destroy the whole store. I think it is wrong wrong wrong that our kids are made to take Spanish in school and the Spanish speaking kids don't have to learn English nor is there a class that teaches them the language of ENGLISH in the schools.
I truly think that in order to become an American citizen you must be required to learn and speak English. But what they don't know when they come in to where I work if our manager is working she is a white American that can speak and understand Spanish and knows everything they say when they come in and start speaking. Thanks for listening;):););)

Monday, February 1, 2010

The Nerve of Some People

I started out this post on my facebook but decided to remove it so I could elaborate a little more.
First of all I want to make perfectly clear that I trust my husband :)
So here it goes!
Last week my mother had gone in to our post office and this lady/girl approached her and asked how she was doing, mama said just fine. Then out of the mouth of this lady/girl came this," I sure wish that Mike White wasn't married" and then said "you are his mother aren't you"? Well mama was kind of shocked and didn't know what to say as she didn't even recognize this person, so mama said "no, I am HIS wife's mother", then this lady said "well I still wish he wasn't married" and flew out the door.
She finally told me this Friday night as we were eating at Sunset Coastal Grill and I was floored, not about the fact she wished he wasn't married but the NERVE to come up to someone you really don't know and say such a thing. Now the finding out who this person is will be my next mission:):) The only description we got was, she had short strawberry blond hair.
Who knows someone with strawberry-blond hair;0) This is too FUNNY!!!!