[PRCo] Re: Answer to Fred III's post on bilingual drivers

[John Swindler]

Remember Beau Graham, Fred?  The Army sent him to Korea, where he picked up enough Korean to get by.  Several years later, while riding a bus in LA, two Koreans were making rude remarks about the other passengers.  As he got up to leave the bus, he made a comment to them - in Korean.
 
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Answer to Fred III's post on bilingual drivers> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:32:02 -0500> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> > > On Dec 8, 2007, at 8:26 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:> > > I was able to really send "shock waves", albeit good shock waves, > > through some Hispanic drivers a few years ago when I lived in > > Austin, TX and worked for Capital Metro. We were all sitting in the > > operators lounge, playing some silly game which required that > > scores be kept for each player. I was the only "Anglo" in the > > group. Bear in mind, however, all these guys were my good work > > buddies. They would switch from English to Spanish, and back and > > forth. At one point, one guy told a joke, in Spanish. When the > > punch line came I laughed along with them. (The punch line was, > > "And look, Henry has the pen.") So, thinking quickly, I figured I > > better say the punch line to prove that I understood what was said, > > and not just laughing along with them. So I said, "Si, la pluma es > > con Enrique", or Yes, the pen is with Henry. I never saw four chins > > drop to the floor so fast and such a look of surprise come over > > four people at the same time. It was really priceless...........I > > wish I would have had a camera to record the moment. At that time > > I then knew that those years of taking Spanish were really worth > > it. ;-)> >> >> > Herb Brannon> >> >> > 
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