LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]

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  • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.nettoChapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Mao Zedong - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-31st of December 2025English
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    15 päivää sitten

    I had a really cool moment with my Uber driver coming home from Outpatient. I hop in the Uber and ask how his day is going, I get a quiet mumbly response. This doesn’t throw me off, not every driver wants to talk and I don’t want to talk on every ride.

    At some point, the GPS is loading and not giving him proper instructions, so he asks me for directions. I give him a somewhat wordy answer because that’s just how I talk. He is clearly confused, and takes a wrong turn. At first I am confused by this. I clinch my eyes (I have terrible vision and broke my glasses months ago) and see that his phone is on Spanish. I then realize he just doesn’t have very good English skills. I start giving him instructions in my shitty Spanish I learned from working in kitchens for years, and he immediately lights up.

    I learned the Spanish I did to be more accommodating to people I considered friends/coworkers, but had no proper education on it. I’m talking in broken Spanish and he’s talking in broken English. We bond over how we both suck at each other’s language but still manage to have a full conversation. He tells me that English street names all look the same so even though his maps are in Spanish they don’t help that much. I just continue giving him instructions throughout our chat and the wrong turns stop completely. We talk a little bit about what we do/did for work and send each other off with more broken language.

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