Reply #34: My sister and nephew were here for the holidays [View All]

[Ikonoklast]

My oldest sister spent her junior year of college in Spain, and met and eventually married a Spanish national, and has lived in Valencia for nearly thirty years. Her husband is a professor at the university, and her son goes to Oxford. He is a dual citizen of Spain and the U.S. She teaches English at the local high school.

My nephew and BIL both speak English with a British accent, as they both have had some of their education in Britain, and my sister speaks flawless Spanish, as well as Catalan.

Anyway, my sister and nephew went to do some shopping for Christmas, and while looking at some items, were conversing in Spanish, as that is the language they use at home. Some ignorant asshole started mumbling something about 'damned immigrants', when my sister, in perfect English, informed the lout that she was a natural-born citizen of the United States, as was her son, and if he didn't care for the language they were speaking among themselves, he could take a long walk off a short pier, until his hat floated.

What really made his eyes wide was when my nephew, in his very best English accent, told the jerk to 'sod off.'