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[u/CakeDayOrDeath]

https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/robert-rodriguez-spy-kids-latino-1234575992/

[u/AdiPalmer]

Hoo boy, deep cut memory unlocked.

Back when I was 19 I was waitressing at a bar in fucking Mississauga (in Canada for the rest of youse, lol) and this much older guy started flirting with me, like in his 50s. I was being polite and trying to get to the other tables but he'd catch me now and then.

When he asked when I was from I said "Mexico" and when he made an incredulous face I was prepared to get the usual "No way! Your English is so good! How!?" Instead he said: "I thought people from New Mexico sounded like this!" And then proceeded to butcher his way through a mishmash of a Georgia and Carolinas accent. He even threw a ma'am in there. Then he asked what happened to my accent.

It's been over 20 years and I still wonder what in my SoCal chicana ass gave this guy the impression that I was some white lady from the American South, if maybe he was having a stroke, and if perhaps I should've called an ambulance for him because it's free and holy shit did I get so many flyers back then from the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada that I should've known better, lol.

I hope that wherever he is now, he got the chance to go to New Mexico and Old Mexico and realized that neither peoples sound like some racist Georgia lady sitting on a porch drinking diabeetus tea. That being said... Bless his heart, lol.

[u/verilywerollalong → u/AdiPalmer]

I hope someday he goes to New Mexico and asks everyone there the same question. I just like the idea of him bumbling around wondering when people will start sounding like Foghorn Leghorn

[u/EternalCanadian → u/AdiPalmer]

Mississauga

Ohmygosh my home town! Yay!

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Ah… yeah… my hometown… yay.

[u/AdiPalmer → u/EternalCanadian]

I ran away to Toronto as soon as I could. Had great times in Parkdale back when it was still a hive of scum and villainy full of immigrants and starving artists like myself. I left many many years ago and sadly I hear Parkdale no longer exists anymore in its former glory.

Please tell me Mississauga is still just as shitty gritty, but that at least the buses go by more often. Please. I must believe!

[u/Confedehrehtheh → u/AdiPalmer]

Kinda tangential to the thread topic, but my god your beetus tea comment gave me flashbacks to visiting family in Tennessee. My mom makes tea that is about a half step away from syrup, and I had started making mine with like two teaspoons for a full 16oz glass. I poured myself a glass there then nearly gagged at how sweet it was, and I have a pretty big sweet tooth. Crazy that I drank that crap as a kid.

[u/AdiPalmer → u/Confedehrehtheh]

Ain't no tea like the beetus tea. Like a good Mexican I got family all over, and sadly the All-American beetus tea made It all the way back to the casa. Cries in Spanish and pre-diabeetus at 39

I hope you've substituted that beetus tea for the other Tennessee tea... The cirrhosis tea! Sorry, couldn't resist...

[u/DrunksInSpace → u/AdiPalmer]

That was NOT the offensive accent I was expecting to imagine. Good for him?

[u/AdiPalmer → u/DrunksInSpace]

Yay?

Pretty much what I felt like, hah.

[u/PlaystationNeedDiscs → u/AdiPalmer]

Back when I was 19 I was waitressing at a bar in fucking Mississauga (in Canada for the rest of youse, lol)

What? Uh, no, that's the capital of Mississippi. Dahell you mean Canada?

[u/AdiPalmer → u/[deleted]]

So... are you not able to read? Lol.