I shall start to explain. Mary Lynn Wilson taught me Spanish in high school. I was on the Spanish scholars' bowl team. And I lived in New Mexico for about 4 years. My Spanish still sucks, but I can get in a word or two on occasion. And I have MLW ,and the clerks at my local 7/11 in Albuquerque to thank for that.
If you have been reading my blog you will know of what I am speaking. I work at a store that sells catalog returns. The story goes as such:
Little Central American woman buys weed-trimmer Saturday, returns it Thursday claiming "No trabaja." It does so "trabaja," but I can't explain that. My boss calls me to the front of the store to help, and I try. I try to explain, "Todas la ventas finales." But we do have a 7 day policy on plug-in/battery thingys. I tell her she has $24.50 to spend in the store. She searches forever to find something of the same price. After "puedo conseguir esto" after "puedo conseguir esto" and "no" as the answer, I finally am able (a buck I will gladly pay) to say "Si, eso es bueno." La Mujer leaves with a cute little teapot and I have a weed-eater that is not broken and can sell again. And she has a $100 teapot for near nothing. I need to see MLW again to make me fluent.
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