*PSA* Forced drinking: *Angel Shots* are code for staff *help* or ask for *Angela* is an alternative. - Angel Shot with *Lime* : *Police* & notify a manager. - Angel Shot *Neat* : You need someone to *walk you to your car.* - *Angel on the Rocks* : Call a *Uber, Lyft or a taxi.* - *Angel Shot* : *Staff & manager notified, in an unsafe or uncomfortable situation* or you need help but *can't remember the specific Shots.* Sexual assult, forced drinking etc.
The problem is that if you cant get away from the person to make the comment, asking for Angela or an angel shot or whatever that bar/place uses as code can backfire as plenty of unsavoury men and women also know what its code for
@@codahighland if your local bars don't know about Angel shots then inform them The bars I go have posters in the toilet cubicles (all toilets!) saying to ask for Angela if you need help and aren't safe Spread awareness, share printed posters for them to put up even
Growing bamboo is actually illegal in a lot of places in the US, due to its severely invasive nature. Either by city law or state law. I looked into it several years ago bc I wanted to build a Zen garden and wanted bamboo planted around it.
Apparently it's allowed in Texas. I'm guessing it's something with the natural environment so that while it does spread, it doesn't get too out of hand, or risk germinating outside of Texas? Maybe? That, or it's because "Texas".
Story 1: Forcing someone to drink alcohol and not taking no for an answer is already a red flag. That date should have just listened, though I’m surprised he didn’t demand OP pay for the damage to his car and threaten to sue.
Story 2: Never insult someone right in front of them, not even in a different language, because they MIGHT understand what you're saying, and you'll be embarrassed.
My aunt shared a story similar to that when her 2nd husband and her were on their honeymoon holiday touring Europe back in the 90s with a well known tour company named after a square in London. The tour guide kept bad mouthing the passengers to the driver, thinking that no one on board could understand Dutch because they were mostly Asians and Australians. Well, my uncle was born and raised in Flemish Belgium and could understand Dutch fully and right as they were changing over to another tour guide and driver for the next leg he went off at them in Dutch, then told all the passengers in English what they had said about them. Least to say the other tour guide and driver werent happy about it either, and helped passengers file the necessary paperwork to complain. Turned out that there had been complaints about the two in the past, however because nothing specific could be pointed out on being said about the passengers, just that they kept talking in Dutch when no one could understand them, then the union was protecting them. However, the tour guide taking over just happened to be their union rep and after being told exactly what they had been saying about their passengers pretty much nailed their coffins shut. My aunt and uncle went on to complete their tour and a week after they returned to Australia got a letter of apology from the higher ups of the tour company along with a complete refund and vouchers for their next holiday. They also found out that the tour guide and driver had both been sacked the next day when the tour guide had faxed the complaints through with their own recommendation that they fire them and the union wouldnt protect.
Yeah, people who do this are usually racists / bigots. They think it makes them feel superior to put another down right in front of them without them knowing. I'll never understand that mentality, especially just gambling that the person doesn't know the language.
@@Nerobyrne exactly, you can totally insult someone. To their face. You have to mean it, otherwise you're a coward with no self control, which is a double whammy.
The credit thief story: I went through something similar. Back in my early days in the independent film community I got mixed up with someone who tried to steal my writing. There was this washed-up actress who was trying to transition to writing and producing but didn't really have the skills for it. Her spelling was atrocious and it was apparent, to anyone who'll listen to her run her mouth for more than a few minutes, that the only thing she ever wrote was a bad check or a social media post. She tried to take credit for a feature-length original screenplay I had already written and copyrighted long before I met her. For those who don't know, that constitutes theft of intellectual property. Being completely ignorant of the law and having no respect for boundaries, she went for the daily double: she altered my story in hopes of nabbing the leading role when it went into production. Being a technically illiterate moron, she was completely unaware that my name was still on the title page and didn't know how to remove it. To make an already long story much shorter, she was outed as a lying grifter with zero skills and even less talent. It should come as no surprise whatsoever I wasn't the first person she had done this too. She burned a lot of bridges with her unprincipled, unethical, immoral and downright illegal business practices. Last I heard, she's now a completely unemployable pariah. Karma's a bitch.
First Story: Well that is one way to end a date lmao. Not going to lie, I thought this guy was going to do horrible things to OP because I found it weird that he was so insistent on OP to continue to drink more and more. I honestly felt like he was trying to get OP black out drunk just so he can possibly do some questionable things. He deserved to get throw up all over his car and it could've been avoided if he would've taken no for an answer Second Story: This is why u should never judge a book by its cover, they might be able to understand every word u are saying about them. The bride's mom really thought she can talk trash about OP because she assumed OP didn't know what she was saying. I honestly would've loved to see that mom's face after OP started talking to her in Spanish Comment: Lmao that is hilarious and I bet the commenter made that girl's day Third Story: That all could've been avoided if he just pointed the light somewhere else; now he has to deal with a lot of bamboo lol. I bet that forest looks great though Fourth Story: It was either tell the parents or get the cars towed. It was a good thing the parents are actually responsible adults and didn't let what their son and his friends are doing slide. They have to learn somehow and well I guess they got the easier way Fifth Story: Good ol' fashioned nepotism. Anyway, I wonder how she thought she would get away with this when she ain't even in the same department as OP. Good thing OP called her out right in front of the boss of bosses Sixth Story: U know someone is trying to get some kind of treatment when they say "I know ur boss and they would do xyz" like how this guy was trying to pull something with OP and it failed miserably. Comment: Thats a great way to call someone out on their bs. How can u personally know someone but can't pronounce their name correctly? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I mean, now that I know he actually didn't have any nefarious intentions, I understand his position. I also would hate it if I bought a whole long island ice tea and it was wasted. SO I WOULD DRINK IT MYSELF!
@@xKCAZxLEADER wait hang on, I just realized that he had to drive. 🤦♂ But hey, he can just give it to someone else at the bar, I'm sure they'd appreciate it. That does complicate it a bit, but at the end of the day, nothing is worth pushing alcohol on someone that doesn't want it.
@@Nerobyrne Yeah but the story precised that the drink was bought after OP mentioned not wanting to drink anymore if I got that right? So why buying it anyways?
"I'm whiter than a jar of mayo and I don't look like I speak Spanish." I love how in USA they forget that Spain exist and people here is like 90% white, you don't have to have a darker skin or anything to speak native Spanish 😂
When the tv show _The Spanish Princess_ came out, there was actually a small uproar because they cast a light-skinned, red-haired woman as Catherine of Aragon. They argued that obviously Catherine of Aragon must’ve been dark haired and had tan or olive skin since she was Spanish. Apparently none of them looked at any of the several portraits that still exist of Catherine, or else they would see that she (as well as all 3 of her sisters and her brother) had very light skin, light colored eyes (probably blue), and red hair. It was a bunch of Americans that for some reason assumed that 15th century Spanish monarchy must all look like modern day American Latinos.
And that’s exactly why they said that, cause a lot of American people, even people who speak the language and are from the country, are ignorant and think otherwise
While I'm not bilingual in any sense, I can imagine knowing multiple languages is one of the ultimate flexes anyone can make because no one can get away with talking shit about you in another language
Not really... All languages are in related in one way or another, some languages are only very, very, very distantly related, but it's still often pretty easy to understand people talking crap about you
@@insu_na i speak finnish and english, finnish is from a whole another family tree than most other languages. Not really related at all in that sense as you are saying. So not All languages. I get to flex on yall indo-european based language speakers.
Story 2: Man this reminds me of when I lived in Japan in high school. I'm on the train returning home from Tokyo. I'm facing out the window as I near my home station. I hear two girls behind me OBVIOULY talking about me. One was egging the other on to talk to me. I wasn't fluent at that time, but had a pretty good handle on the language so l understood most of their discourse. I'm trying, and failing to not smirk at the humor of the situation. The people seated in front of me can see that i understand what's going on and are trying to hold back their own laughter. As the train nears my station it slows to a stop. I hear one of the girls behind me say in English "I want you. I need you." As the doors open, I turn around and said, "Do you now?" The train doors open and like an idiot, I walked off the train.😔
Story 2: I speak 4 languages, one of them being Spanish (even though I, like the story's OP, do NOT look latino/hispanic or even southern European). I was recently hospitalized and I was in a room with a woman from Honduras who spent every day screaming obscenities at her husband. She even called him at 5am to scream at him, the day I was meant to have emergency surgery. When I was crying from pain and exhaustion (this only happened once when I woke up to her screeches at 5am, I tried to be quiet and respectful of other patients around me), she said "Stop crying, you crazy bitch" in Spanish. I never let on that I understood her but I really regret it! It would have been nice to let her know her diatribes were not lost on me.
As someone who has gone past their limit once or twice due to peer pressure. Not only is it so great that OP made eye contact as it happened. But I can tell you, that stuff went far and splattered wide. When your body thinks you've been poisoned, it returns to sender twice as hard as just compared to say, the flu.
Yeah, now imagine the neighbor using that same logic to poison OP's lawn or planting something toxic or poisonous along his property line. Playing stupid games with your neighbors is a slippery slope.
@@N0xiety it most definitely is NOT illegal. I can plant wisteria, oleander, or any number of ornamental plants that are highly toxic and fully legal to own. Or I can plant a Chinese yew tree, whose berries contain arsenic, which will leech into the ground. There are literally thousands of toxic and poisonous plants that are completely legal to own and plant, and nobody can say a damned thing about it. Your ignorance regarding landscaping does NOT constitute a crime on my part.
@@SkunkApe407 I don't get your point, wisteria is beautiful, and it would also provide privacy, which is what you are AGAINST doing is it not? That's the whole point of this dispute, the neighbor would probably thank you lmao, unless he got a dog or something that could ingest it unknowingly. As for oleander, bamboo will overtake all of it at the property line. You would need to be giving quite a bit of attention and cleaning up of bamboo overgrowth to keep em, not to mention it's more of a hazard to you than the neighbor lol. And good luck waiting for that chinese yew tree to grow to anything significant to the point of becoming a problem. Or are you saying you would literally buy a few grown trees for a spite? Lmao, just fix your goddamn light, it takes 100000000% less effort, so you don't get into such a stupid fight that will waste a lot of your time and money...
@@N0xiety see, that's your problem, right there. Don't think for others when you obviously struggle with thinking for yourself. My issue isn't with privacy, it's with OP's petty, wilful destruction of his neighbor's land. All over a fucking floodlight? OP is a shitbag and a piss poor example of a military veteran. I say that as a veteran. Wisteria is highly toxic, as is oleander. The fact that you don't know that is exactly why I plant them along my property line. If you get into my landscaping and take ill, that's a YOU problem. I know what it is and does. I'm not responsible for your ignorance.
Story 5 (Credit Thief): What's dumb about this whole thing is that the lie would've been found out anyway since Karen being from a different department meant that she couldn't actually do such a report even if she tried since she was from a different department
Story 1: She basically pulled a vulture. When feeling threatened a vulture will typically vomit towards the other animal specifically aiming for the eyes to cause maximum damage. Given what a vulture eats it can be anywhere from lethal to causing permanent blindness other than that vultures are pretty chill birds usually.
I had the same problem in Laredo. I spoke Spanish just fine. On my day off I was planning a honeymoon for my wife and I. We had the Justice of the Peace and a follow up Church wedding she wanted. I was discussing the itinerary with the travel lady in English. In walk two Hispanic males and the travel lady abandoned me in a flash catering to the two men in Spanish. I was pissed. I stood up and said in Spanish, “If you’re not going to help me, go F yourself.” Their jaws dropped, one because I could Speak Spanish just fine and I called them out for being racist assholes. I left, did the travel plan’s myself. Not only did I save half the money, but the racist woman lost her commission.
@@bellahontas510 Dump the white man you are making arrangement with, with not even a exchange to run up and help two Hispanic men who just wandered off the street, yeah, it was racist. Laredo is the most racist Border Cities. They routinely referred to a black co-worker regularly as, “Negro feo.,” to the point he quit and went to Dallas. White co-workers married to Hispanic women were treated like garbage by the community everywhere they went. If we went to a doctors appointment whole family units would go back with the patient. At the same office my wife requested I go back with her for her appointment. The office staff said they would call security if I dared go with my wife for the appointment she asked for me to be with her for. So, yes, racist.
5:53 "quizas el proximo ves" - I just wanted to point out that that sentence is grammatically incorrect, it should have been 'quizas la proxima ves', in feminine form. I'm not blaming op on this, kudos to him for learning a new language in the first place, and if he keeps at it, he'll get better quickly. I don't blame rSlash's horrendous pronunciation of that sentence either, I assume he only knows a handful of Spanish words.
The first one reminded me of my ex who bought be a pizza when I wasn’t hungry. I didn’t want it because I literally ate 5 minutes before and he knew that. Tried to get me to eat it, forced me to touch it with my hand. “Now you have to eat it because you touched it and you don’t want to waste my money do you?” My friend, with us at the time (community college), took the pizza and slapped him with it. 🤣
I've had a "bad" field neighbor for years now. Constantly spraying herbicide over the property line as much as 15'. I've been looking for years now for something they couldn't kill so easily to block their sprays... bamboo was it... they've sprayed it every year and every year it comes right back... yay, no more dead grass around the edges...
Last story: I work in expensive bridal wear and people are ALWAYS calling, pretending to know the owners based on a ten year old business article. His name is easy, but his wife and co-owner has changed a couple times across the years 😂
Story 1 was awesome. Pure justice, anybody that's had their car puked in knows that the smell never really goes away and you'll never clean it all without redoing the carpets and upholstery.
Good point and add that the sense of smell can be imagined very accurately later. So even if the smell was entirely eradicated he could still smell it when he thinks of it.
The only way to improve the bamboo story would be if, when the neighbour came over to complain about the bamboo, OP had shined a massive LED floodlight in his face.
First story: I think it's fairly obvious that the guy was trying to get OP totally drunk so he could take advantage of her. I mean, buying her a large Long Island iced tea after she said that she was done drinking? Yeah, he wanted her to pass out.
Story 1: guy doesn't realise he made a mistake until it was too late. Now he has to drive home with a vomit smell lingering. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Story 2: I love when OP knows and speaks the language that someone is clearly using to insult them. It's just so satisfying to see. Comment story: ooo another "I know the language you speak"... but it's wholesome instead! Story 3: the neighbour's house now has a bamboo dome... I'm curious what it would look like? Story 4: op went the civil route rather than just calling the tow truck... seems like the parental guardian wasn't aware the kid was misbehaving badly behind their back Story 5: Karen getting caught lying... how satisfying! Story 6: imagine lying to the owner's child... can't be me 🤷♀️ Comment story: huh. Never heard of Joan being pronounced as JoAnn... but I've heard weirder pronunciations
Man - I seriously love the fact that your Reddit reading channel has done SOOOO well and you have so many subs! I literally listen to Reddit nonstop when I wind down for bed and yours during the day when at work. I’m just happy you’re still here doing this for us every day man, thank you! Much love ❤️
Bamboo is an INSANE plant, not only does it spread fast, but it has a LOT of uses, you can use it as a pot (yes it resilient enough to stand fire, so you can cook stuff), you can make lightbulbs with it, houses, tools, traps (the famous pits full of spears, you can use Bamboo sticks/spears instead) and the list goes on, also, you can eat their sprouts (as a matter of fact, back on ancient times, on what is China today, the wild chicken's populations were coordinated with the times Bamboo sprouted and ancient humans noticed this and started constantly feeding those wild chickens for easy food)
Today is my last day nannying my little baby, and I just can’t help but that you for these videos. Every morning after breakfast when I’m cleaning or playing with the baby listening to these videos kept me going and gave me some much needed adult content amongst all the kid songs! Always right on time in the morning. Thank you.
My Nana’s name was Joanne, and originally her mama spelled it as Joan. She had a teacher that refused to pronounce her name as Joanne and my Nana was so mad, she just refused to speak to her. The day she turned 18, Nana got her name changed to the spelling above. Her mama was so bent out of shape, because there was a superstition that if you change a child’s name before they were 21, they would die. That superstition ended up with 2 of my Uncles being named James due to a birth certificate error. One uncle was meant to be Jesse. Since they both entered the military as James, they didn’t get it fixed. We called them Uncle Bud and Uncle Bowser. This was waaaay before Mario in case anyone was wondering lol
I’d have just installed “security mirrors” and aimed those directly at *his* windows. *ALL* of his windows. One handy little mirror for each one. The best part is: The way he stops this from working is by *doing the thing Op asked for initially.*
Spanish: I saw a waitress do that in French once in a restaurant I worked in. It was GLORIOUS! The worst part is: I lived in a country where French was not uncommon at all.
The bamboo plan sounds freaking amazing. However as a plant and environmental enthusiast I’m gonna have to say if you live near a land with a forest, try to plant a more native fast growing plant in the area. Other than that, fast growing plants and weeds for the win! Bamboo is part of the grass family and golden bamboo is one of the fastest growing grass/weeds not native to Texas but grows well in the humid environment. Want a native fast growing and beautiful tree? Plant a green verde or a Museum tree! Grows likes crazy and is beautiful and evergreen year round! And it’s naturally established in the state of Texas! Have a good one everyone! :)
Being able to keep eye contact with someone while you vomit all over their car is a wierdly specific - and gross - skill to have. xD Plus seeding your annoying neighbour's yard with bamboo sounds like on the verge of pure evil rather than just petty revenge. But the whole 'I'm not going to stop shining this bright light into your bedroom' is a pretty crappy thing to do. Why do people just do these things?
Fourth story, if there’s nothing against installing solar panels in the HOA, I would install some especially reflective panels and angle the light back towards his house, targeting a window. Add some fairy lights around your deck. If your neighbor starts complaining, tell them thanks for the light as it’s powering the fairy lights.
Hey rslash I’m a huge fan I’ve been watching to your videos everyday since 2020 and it’s a huge part of my day. I want to thank you for making my mornings a little bit better. Your laugh is so contagious that I’ll start laughing out loud in public. I hope you can bring back tales from retail or the front desk someday, it’ll be nice to hear them now that i got my first job in retail :0
story 2: just the thought of the girls talking in chilean Spanish it's so funny to me 😂😂 i can imagine them going like "amiga creo que le gustas" and the girl going "cállate weona" is the funniest thing😂😂
I had an incident re entitled people speaking another language. I'm Latino but look very Caucasian, and I can understand and speak Spanish very well. Anyways, I was working the customer service counter wrapping gifts for the holiday season. I had this one Latino family come and request, in English, to have their purchases gift-wrapped. I started doing the wrapping and midway through they speak Spanish and they are obviously talking about me, with insults, saying how Im so slow in wrapping gifts, its pathetic, etc. I take this all in, remain stone-faced as I finish wrapping their gifts. Once I finished I bagged up the packages and gave it to them, and smiling, ever so sickly-sweet say, in perfect Spanish, "here are your gifts, all wrapped up. I hope you have a Merry Christmas." The looks on their faces were priceless. They silently collected their belongings and proceeded to walk out the store. As they were leaving I follow them out, and in Spanish say "I hope you have a wonderful New Year!" They didn't look back as they rushed out of there. As I turned around and went back to my post. The other people waiting in line overheard the conversation and applauded me for "killing them with kindness." Hope Rslash will put this story up one day.
Bamboo is a severely invasive species and over time can destroy yards, pipes, and foundations. It's also hard to kill, because the root structure can go down several feet below where most root killer will reach. Several states outlaw bamboo for this precise reason.
Working in construction I usually got both ends of the extreme: really nice or really rude. Precovid and preggo w/my 1st, I was working in my family business's office. This guy called trying to sell something to the owner, my stepdad. I told him the owner wasn't available and wouldn't be interested. His exact words were "How would you know what he wants?" After taking a DEEP breath, I said, "Because I'm his DAUGHTER." CLICK. It took everything in me not to yell at him, but I did vent to a coworker. THE GALL.
1st story. damn..trying to clean up all that puke will be a detailing nightmare. If this guy is soooo in love with his car like OP says I know he will be obsessed with getting every little bit of puke cleaned up but getting it all out of all of the nooks and crannies and from behind any dash panels is not gonna be easy or cheap. Good for you OP.
I remember when my department, meaning my colleague and me prepared a proposal for a project that would be giving in revenue 3 million dollars a year. Our stupid supervisor decided that it was a good idea to tell the other department about it since they would be impacted, but we said that it wasn't a good idea since it was just proposal and it hasn't been approved, it could get stolen, but he didn't listen and invited the manager and both supervisors to a meeting with us. Well we ain't stupid and hatch a plan and we give the presentation with all the failure ideas instead of the real one and vaguely answer the questions. We did a great speech about all the revenue it would bring. We saw how both supervisors and the manager look when we finished so we told our supervisor he needs to submit the proyect before anyone could try to submit a similar one and he brush us off. Well a month passed and the stupid supervisor of us told us to talk to production because they submitted the plan for us in their namevand were approved. I was livid and went to the manager to talk about ownership and to add us to the project because it was our project not theirs and he said very slowly to me as if I was stupid, it's my project now and you and your department has nothing to do with us., you will not be included or metion in this project. Then I smile while grinning at him told him ok, it's your project now, remember I am too an engineer even if my position is not as one so good luck with the ideas you submitted hope they are good ones, remember it's your project now and your responsibility, not going to help you now or ever with it, have a good day then I left. 6 month in they started the trial period and it was the most epic disaster I had ever saw in that plant, they lost so much money it was laughable, plus they incurred in a lot of sanctions and heavy fines that he was literally breaking inside, it was so bad the project was not continued afterwards. He begged for us to help figure things out but we refused. Told him it is his plan not ours and his responsibility as the manager of that plant, I'm just a simple auditor with no real power or knowledge to help him out as he told me so many times. The thing is that the idea I sold them as so great that day, because we knew what to expect from them, was the worst one and was given by my college that has no knowledge of engineering, chemistry or anything of the sort. The little reputation he had he lost, not to mention the position he was in, that was was given by his dad and not even his dad had the power to save him from that fiasco, was taken away. He was planning a transfer but it was denied because the situation he was in, was really, really bad, he got dismissed to find better opportunities elsewhere. I am really good as a person but don't try to walk over me or over my friends . Like we said here in Spanish: del agua mansa libreme Dios que de la brava me libro yo. Like : May God protects me from wolf's in sheep's clothes. After that one the supervisor was adamant to get me out cause he knew, but that is another story.
The last story reminds me of catalan names (think Barcelona in Spain). Joan is a man's name and pronounced like Joanne. Xavi is not Chavi, which many would use, but Shavi... (No way you know people well enough to eat for free at our restaurant with your entire family)
Hey RSlash! Guess what??? Bamboo despite not being a member of the family most commonly associated with this law, does actually come under this law. A certain plant based law you are VERY frond of! 😏😏😏
I don't think I could handle knowing I'm being shit talked or even talked positively about in another language for an entire meeting only to shock them at the end. I'm tolerant but man, I couldn't take that for more than a couple minutes without breaking into laughter. I respond to insults with laughter only when about myself and I'm incredibly awkward about compliments. I become upset immediately when someone insults a friend though. I just couldn't keep a straight face and pretend I don't understand. XD Props to people who can!
I ran a Dr office where I did mostly everything.. including taking him to the airport when needed.. had an obnoxious pt bust in one day telling me he was a “ close personal friend “ and didn’t have to wait to see him.. thinking he was going to bullshit me … I said well that’s great ! You can get up at 0400 and haul his ass to the airport tomorrow morning.. he left and we never saw him again.. so much for close personal!
Love me some bamboo! I have a neighbor who lets their dog bark non stop for hours at a time every time they let it out. They do nothing to curb the bad behavior. We thought about installing a privacy fence but its too costly & there are two big trees in the way. So bamboo it is! All the way down between our two houses. We did install weed barrier because it grows crazy fast. Plus I can use the canes to create nice arches/trellis & things for my garden.
7th story..I always have a great comeback whenever some tries that "Do you know who I am" bs. I just reply "No..but I know WHAT you are." That tends to shut them up.
As far as the neighbor with the light. Remember, there is a general nucence law for most things. If someone is depriving you of the use and enjoyment of your own property, you can probably sue. Will you win? Maybe not, but you can at least annoy them to try to get them to stop.
The last story... I have been blessed with three first names. When I owned my coffee shop (well, for all my life really), it was funny to hear sales people on the phone or in person ask for me by my last name. Big clue...they had no clue who I was.
Story two: people like that mom are so stupid. OP used 'mom', meaning she's in the US. Spanish is the most common second language here because we border the largest Spanish speaking nation. In some states, you *need* to know to know Spanish in order to do effective business. Never assume an American can't speak Spanish.
Story 4) It's puzzling to me how adult people, when met with a diplomatic proposal, chooses to ignore it. How are they not going to assume that the next logical step is a retaliatory response.
Lol rslash just a tip for you - in Spanish, the "qu" does not make the same sound in English abd Italian. Think of it like a "k" in English. You can do it lol, just keep that in mind as you try! I'm no native speaker myself, but hey, it's helpful to at least know that the next time you go to a restaurant from a Spanish-speaking culture :)
Loved your try at Spanish, almost had it! I heard it and was confused but after watching the texts I was like ohhhh! (Not a native Spanish speaker, but I’m partially bilingual to a point)
The bad thing is, we can't even tell off Rslash for dad jokes, he's got a kid, literally the one qualification for making dad jokes. Otherwise it's just a faux pa.
Story 3: It wasn't bc OP was white. There are white locals in Chile. There are white people (and Black, Asian, Middle Eastern, etc) all over central and South America and shockingly they speak Spanish like everyone else there does, it's not abnormal. He probably just looked/sounded like a tourist going sightseeing, bc he was.
The thumb nail picture is a house in my town. I lived in the next street in 2014 when they issued the Cort order forcing him to do some gardening. My little English town pops up in the strangest places.
It sounds like he was at the Detroit/Windsor crossing cause I can see Detroit from my street and it’s 15 mins to Detroit’s dt, it’s really really close. The car type and pushyness, is something a lot of us girls deal with when US boys come over to our side and it’s not uncommon for them to spike drinks because once they’re done, they can just dip back over and never get caught. It happened to me and I managed to get home before it hit so I got lucky. But yeah, what OP went through? That’s the kinda shenanigans you’re gonna get going to Ceasars with someone who can’t drink stateside is gonna be like. And I’m not saying all Americans are bad because I know so many nice ones, a lot here here have dual citizenship. I’m just talking about the creepy ones who unfortunately have become a stereotype and OP just so happened to go in a full fledged date with them. DT Windsor is getting as bad as DT Detroit and it makes me so sad to see just beautiful old cities get so run down :(
Back when my dad worked, the owner of the company had a very German name that was kinda hard for Americans to pronounce and he was well aware of this. As a result, the screener for anyone wanting to talk to him was that you had to call him by his first name - anyone using his last was automatically send to voice mail.
i worked at a bakery for a while and the owner's name was stacia (pronounced stay-sha) - i can't tell you how many people came in wanting a discount because they were close with "stacia" (which they would pronounce stah-cee-uh) - i was like I'm not sure if stacia would approve of that but i'll leave a message for her that you came. they always dropped it at that point
The first story about op who was on a blind date is that when she reached her limit of alcohol is that she should have just left the idiot and got a ride back home and of course just not responded to the idiot anymore
The story about op who went to talk to his annoying neighbor about his damn back porch light is that instead of talking to him about changing it position is that he should have just taken the bulbs out and not give them back and or maybe remove the whole light fixture itself from the house
*PSA* Forced drinking: *Angel Shots* are code for staff *help* or ask for *Angela* is an alternative.
- Angel Shot with *Lime* : *Police* & notify a manager.
- Angel Shot *Neat* : You need someone to *walk you to your car.*
- *Angel on the Rocks* : Call a *Uber, Lyft or a taxi.*
- *Angel Shot* : *Staff & manager notified, in an unsafe or uncomfortable situation* or you need help but *can't remember the specific Shots.* Sexual assult, forced drinking etc.
Thank you so much for this 😃 I didn't even know it was a thing.
Wow, didn't know this was a thing, great to know, eventually
The problem is that if you cant get away from the person to make the comment, asking for Angela or an angel shot or whatever that bar/place uses as code can backfire as plenty of unsavoury men and women also know what its code for
It also kind of assumes that the bartender has heard of it. Kind of not reliable either way.
@@codahighland if your local bars don't know about Angel shots then inform them
The bars I go have posters in the toilet cubicles (all toilets!) saying to ask for Angela if you need help and aren't safe
Spread awareness, share printed posters for them to put up even
Growing bamboo is actually illegal in a lot of places in the US, due to its severely invasive nature. Either by city law or state law. I looked into it several years ago bc I wanted to build a Zen garden and wanted bamboo planted around it.
Apparently it's allowed in Texas. I'm guessing it's something with the natural environment so that while it does spread, it doesn't get too out of hand, or risk germinating outside of Texas? Maybe?
That, or it's because "Texas".
It also depends on what variety it is.
What if you planted bamboo in pots?
@@PhoenixFlare1 Bamboo in pots is a different variety.
Story 1: Forcing someone to drink alcohol and not taking no for an answer is already a red flag. That date should have just listened, though I’m surprised he didn’t demand OP pay for the damage to his car and threaten to sue.
The date probably didn't want to explain to a US judge how they took OP across the border for _underage drinking._
Maybe there's something in his car that he doesn't want anyone to inspect.
Hopefully OP learned a lesson. That was a stupid decision. Things could have gone awfully wrong.
Im pretty fucking certain he was planning to have his way with her onc eshe blacked oit
Story 2: Never insult someone right in front of them, not even in a different language, because they MIGHT understand what you're saying, and you'll be embarrassed.
I have this rule:
"Never say anything *about* someone that you wouldn't say *to* them."
My aunt shared a story similar to that when her 2nd husband and her were on their honeymoon holiday touring Europe back in the 90s with a well known tour company named after a square in London. The tour guide kept bad mouthing the passengers to the driver, thinking that no one on board could understand Dutch because they were mostly Asians and Australians. Well, my uncle was born and raised in Flemish Belgium and could understand Dutch fully and right as they were changing over to another tour guide and driver for the next leg he went off at them in Dutch, then told all the passengers in English what they had said about them.
Least to say the other tour guide and driver werent happy about it either, and helped passengers file the necessary paperwork to complain. Turned out that there had been complaints about the two in the past, however because nothing specific could be pointed out on being said about the passengers, just that they kept talking in Dutch when no one could understand them, then the union was protecting them. However, the tour guide taking over just happened to be their union rep and after being told exactly what they had been saying about their passengers pretty much nailed their coffins shut.
My aunt and uncle went on to complete their tour and a week after they returned to Australia got a letter of apology from the higher ups of the tour company along with a complete refund and vouchers for their next holiday. They also found out that the tour guide and driver had both been sacked the next day when the tour guide had faxed the complaints through with their own recommendation that they fire them and the union wouldnt protect.
Have the guts to say it to their face in a language they understand or don't say it at all.
Yeah, people who do this are usually racists / bigots. They think it makes them feel superior to put another down right in front of them without them knowing. I'll never understand that mentality, especially just gambling that the person doesn't know the language.
@@Nerobyrne exactly, you can totally insult someone. To their face. You have to mean it, otherwise you're a coward with no self control, which is a double whammy.
Seems very dangerous to cross a border with a person you don’t know that well and then drink things they give you…
She was probably 19-20. Clearly OP learned her lesson and I'm sure she didn't make -that- mistake again.
@@gilded_lady she was 18
@Carrie Mansfield she didn't talk about it like it was a bad idea. Just that the last drink was. She sounds really stupid tbh.
Not to mention driving home with him, the guy who has also been drinking.
fr, I know she was younger, but man, that was just dumb
Bamboozled? Are you proud of yourself, rSlash?
This is one of the reasons this may be my favorite channel.
The credit thief story: I went through something similar. Back in my early days in the independent film community I got mixed up with someone who tried to steal my writing. There was this washed-up actress who was trying to transition to writing and producing but didn't really have the skills for it. Her spelling was atrocious and it was apparent, to anyone who'll listen to her run her mouth for more than a few minutes, that the only thing she ever wrote was a bad check or a social media post. She tried to take credit for a feature-length original screenplay I had already written and copyrighted long before I met her. For those who don't know, that constitutes theft of intellectual property. Being completely ignorant of the law and having no respect for boundaries, she went for the daily double: she altered my story in hopes of nabbing the leading role when it went into production. Being a technically illiterate moron, she was completely unaware that my name was still on the title page and didn't know how to remove it. To make an already long story much shorter, she was outed as a lying grifter with zero skills and even less talent. It should come as no surprise whatsoever I wasn't the first person she had done this too. She burned a lot of bridges with her unprincipled, unethical, immoral and downright illegal business practices. Last I heard, she's now a completely unemployable pariah. Karma's a bitch.
First Story: Well that is one way to end a date lmao. Not going to lie, I thought this guy was going to do horrible things to OP because I found it weird that he was so insistent on OP to continue to drink more and more. I honestly felt like he was trying to get OP black out drunk just so he can possibly do some questionable things. He deserved to get throw up all over his car and it could've been avoided if he would've taken no for an answer
Second Story: This is why u should never judge a book by its cover, they might be able to understand every word u are saying about them. The bride's mom really thought she can talk trash about OP because she assumed OP didn't know what she was saying. I honestly would've loved to see that mom's face after OP started talking to her in Spanish
Comment: Lmao that is hilarious and I bet the commenter made that girl's day
Third Story: That all could've been avoided if he just pointed the light somewhere else; now he has to deal with a lot of bamboo lol. I bet that forest looks great though
Fourth Story: It was either tell the parents or get the cars towed. It was a good thing the parents are actually responsible adults and didn't let what their son and his friends are doing slide. They have to learn somehow and well I guess they got the easier way
Fifth Story: Good ol' fashioned nepotism. Anyway, I wonder how she thought she would get away with this when she ain't even in the same department as OP. Good thing OP called her out right in front of the boss of bosses
Sixth Story: U know someone is trying to get some kind of treatment when they say "I know ur boss and they would do xyz" like how this guy was trying to pull something with OP and it failed miserably.
Comment: Thats a great way to call someone out on their bs. How can u personally know someone but can't pronounce their name correctly? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I mean, now that I know he actually didn't have any nefarious intentions, I understand his position.
I also would hate it if I bought a whole long island ice tea and it was wasted.
SO I WOULD DRINK IT MYSELF!
@@Nerobyrne facts, what was stopping him from drinking it
@@xKCAZxLEADER wait hang on, I just realized that he had to drive.
🤦♂
But hey, he can just give it to someone else at the bar, I'm sure they'd appreciate it.
That does complicate it a bit, but at the end of the day, nothing is worth pushing alcohol on someone that doesn't want it.
@@Nerobyrne
Yeah but the story precised that the drink was bought after OP mentioned not wanting to drink anymore if I got that right? So why buying it anyways?
@@TheaterCryptid that is a good question
"I'm whiter than a jar of mayo and I don't look like I speak Spanish." I love how in USA they forget that Spain exist and people here is like 90% white, you don't have to have a darker skin or anything to speak native Spanish 😂
They really think that we're all brown
Not even that. A good half of the Latino population is white. A lot of them are very mixed.
When the tv show _The Spanish Princess_ came out, there was actually a small uproar because they cast a light-skinned, red-haired woman as Catherine of Aragon.
They argued that obviously Catherine of Aragon must’ve been dark haired and had tan or olive skin since she was Spanish.
Apparently none of them looked at any of the several portraits that still exist of Catherine, or else they would see that she (as well as all 3 of her sisters and her brother) had very light skin, light colored eyes (probably blue), and red hair.
It was a bunch of Americans that for some reason assumed that 15th century Spanish monarchy must all look like modern day American Latinos.
Ah yes Spain, the blackest of countries /j
And that’s exactly why they said that, cause a lot of American people, even people who speak the language and are from the country, are ignorant and think otherwise
While I'm not bilingual in any sense, I can imagine knowing multiple languages is one of the ultimate flexes anyone can make because no one can get away with talking shit about you in another language
Not really... All languages are in related in one way or another, some languages are only very, very, very distantly related, but it's still often pretty easy to understand people talking crap about you
@@insu_na i speak finnish and english, finnish is from a whole another family tree than most other languages.
Not really related at all in that sense as you are saying.
So not All languages.
I get to flex on yall indo-european based language speakers.
I mean most of Europe speaks at least two languages
Story 4:
Rslash: “OP…”
Me: “Don’t!”
Rslash: “It sounds like your neighbor was…”
Me: “DONT SAY IT!”
Too late!
The moment he became a dad the dad joke filter broke and he always gives them lol
Bamboozled
Story 2: Man this reminds me of when I lived in Japan in high school. I'm on the train returning home from Tokyo. I'm facing out the window as I near my home station. I hear two girls behind me OBVIOULY talking about me. One was egging the other on to talk to me. I wasn't fluent at that time, but had a pretty good handle on the language so l understood most of their discourse. I'm trying, and failing to not smirk at the humor of the situation. The people seated in front of me can see that i understand what's going on and are trying to hold back their own laughter. As the train nears my station it slows to a stop. I hear one of the girls behind me say in English "I want you. I need you." As the doors open, I turn around and said, "Do you now?" The train doors open and like an idiot, I walked off the train.😔
A long island iced tea can get you decently buzzed even if it's your first drink, you do not want to mess with one of those when you're already drunk
Story 2: I speak 4 languages, one of them being Spanish (even though I, like the story's OP, do NOT look latino/hispanic or even southern European). I was recently hospitalized and I was in a room with a woman from Honduras who spent every day screaming obscenities at her husband. She even called him at 5am to scream at him, the day I was meant to have emergency surgery. When I was crying from pain and exhaustion (this only happened once when I woke up to her screeches at 5am, I tried to be quiet and respectful of other patients around me), she said "Stop crying, you crazy bitch" in Spanish. I never let on that I understood her but I really regret it! It would have been nice to let her know her diatribes were not lost on me.
As someone who has gone past their limit once or twice due to peer pressure. Not only is it so great that OP made eye contact as it happened. But I can tell you, that stuff went far and splattered wide. When your body thinks you've been poisoned, it returns to sender twice as hard as just compared to say, the flu.
Its really not hard to be a good person. If that neighbor was one, he wouldn't have had to deal with all that bamboo. :P
Yeah, now imagine the neighbor using that same logic to poison OP's lawn or planting something toxic or poisonous along his property line. Playing stupid games with your neighbors is a slippery slope.
@@SkunkApe407 Well that's illegal, and you will get sued.
@@N0xiety it most definitely is NOT illegal. I can plant wisteria, oleander, or any number of ornamental plants that are highly toxic and fully legal to own. Or I can plant a Chinese yew tree, whose berries contain arsenic, which will leech into the ground. There are literally thousands of toxic and poisonous plants that are completely legal to own and plant, and nobody can say a damned thing about it. Your ignorance regarding landscaping does NOT constitute a crime on my part.
@@SkunkApe407 I don't get your point, wisteria is beautiful, and it would also provide privacy, which is what you are AGAINST doing is it not? That's the whole point of this dispute, the neighbor would probably thank you lmao, unless he got a dog or something that could ingest it unknowingly.
As for oleander, bamboo will overtake all of it at the property line. You would need to be giving quite a bit of attention and cleaning up of bamboo overgrowth to keep em, not to mention it's more of a hazard to you than the neighbor lol.
And good luck waiting for that chinese yew tree to grow to anything significant to the point of becoming a problem. Or are you saying you would literally buy a few grown trees for a spite? Lmao, just fix your goddamn light, it takes 100000000% less effort, so you don't get into such a stupid fight that will waste a lot of your time and money...
@@N0xiety see, that's your problem, right there. Don't think for others when you obviously struggle with thinking for yourself. My issue isn't with privacy, it's with OP's petty, wilful destruction of his neighbor's land. All over a fucking floodlight? OP is a shitbag and a piss poor example of a military veteran. I say that as a veteran. Wisteria is highly toxic, as is oleander. The fact that you don't know that is exactly why I plant them along my property line. If you get into my landscaping and take ill, that's a YOU problem. I know what it is and does. I'm not responsible for your ignorance.
Story 2. This is why you don't trash talk anyone in any language. They just might be able to understand you 😅
R/ISpeakTheLanguage is living proof of that.
Story 5 (Credit Thief): What's dumb about this whole thing is that the lie would've been found out anyway since Karen being from a different department meant that she couldn't actually do such a report even if she tried since she was from a different department
I can't go a day without watching rslash
There are some TIFUs that I skip because I don’t trust that sub; otherwise SAME.
I literally listen to him at night, too, because it helps me sleep. It drives my husband crazy.
And his dad's joke
He is my drive to work entertainment.
Omg me neither. The other Reddit narrators won’t do.
Story 1: She basically pulled a vulture. When feeling threatened a vulture will typically vomit towards the other animal specifically aiming for the eyes to cause maximum damage. Given what a vulture eats it can be anywhere from lethal to causing permanent blindness other than that vultures are pretty chill birds usually.
I had the same problem in Laredo. I spoke Spanish just fine. On my day off I was planning a honeymoon for my wife and I. We had the Justice of the Peace and a follow up Church wedding she wanted. I was discussing the itinerary with the travel lady in English. In walk two Hispanic males and the travel lady abandoned me in a flash catering to the two men in Spanish. I was pissed. I stood up and said in Spanish, “If you’re not going to help me, go F yourself.” Their jaws dropped, one because I could Speak Spanish just fine and I called them out for being racist assholes. I left, did the travel plan’s myself. Not only did I save half the money, but the racist woman lost her commission.
She wasn't racist for that. But she was ignorant and unprofessional, agreed
@@bellahontas510 Dump the white man you are making arrangement with, with not even a exchange to run up and help two Hispanic men who just wandered off the street, yeah, it was racist. Laredo is the most racist Border Cities. They routinely referred to a black co-worker regularly as, “Negro feo.,” to the point he quit and went to Dallas. White co-workers married to Hispanic women were treated like garbage by the community everywhere they went. If we went to a doctors appointment whole family units would go back with the patient. At the same office my wife requested I go back with her for her appointment. The office staff said they would call security if I dared go with my wife for the appointment she asked for me to be with her for. So, yes, racist.
@@bellahontas510prioritizing people of a certain race is racist.
5:53 "quizas el proximo ves" - I just wanted to point out that that sentence is grammatically incorrect, it should have been 'quizas la proxima ves', in feminine form. I'm not blaming op on this, kudos to him for learning a new language in the first place, and if he keeps at it, he'll get better quickly. I don't blame rSlash's horrendous pronunciation of that sentence either, I assume he only knows a handful of Spanish words.
The first one reminded me of my ex who bought be a pizza when I wasn’t hungry. I didn’t want it because I literally ate 5 minutes before and he knew that. Tried to get me to eat it, forced me to touch it with my hand. “Now you have to eat it because you touched it and you don’t want to waste my money do you?”
My friend, with us at the time (community college), took the pizza and slapped him with it. 🤣
I've had a "bad" field neighbor for years now. Constantly spraying herbicide over the property line as much as 15'. I've been looking for years now for something they couldn't kill so easily to block their sprays... bamboo was it... they've sprayed it every year and every year it comes right back... yay, no more dead grass around the edges...
Nothing says petty revenge like weaponized projectile vomiting!
Last story: I work in expensive bridal wear and people are ALWAYS calling, pretending to know the owners based on a ten year old business article. His name is easy, but his wife and co-owner has changed a couple times across the years 😂
Story 1 was awesome. Pure justice, anybody that's had their car puked in knows that the smell never really goes away and you'll never clean it all without redoing the carpets and upholstery.
Good point and add that the sense of smell can be imagined very accurately later. So even if the smell was entirely eradicated he could still smell it when he thinks of it.
I beg to differ. That was very dangerous. The guy could have done whatever to OP.
@@curtisalex456 Part of me did cringe when she chugged it. I don't think I would have done that. High risk high reward I suppose.
The only way to improve the bamboo story would be if, when the neighbour came over to complain about the bamboo, OP had shined a massive LED floodlight in his face.
First story: I think it's fairly obvious that the guy was trying to get OP totally drunk so he could take advantage of her. I mean, buying her a large Long Island iced tea after she said that she was done drinking? Yeah, he wanted her to pass out.
Story 1: guy doesn't realise he made a mistake until it was too late. Now he has to drive home with a vomit smell lingering. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Story 2: I love when OP knows and speaks the language that someone is clearly using to insult them. It's just so satisfying to see.
Comment story: ooo another "I know the language you speak"... but it's wholesome instead!
Story 3: the neighbour's house now has a bamboo dome... I'm curious what it would look like?
Story 4: op went the civil route rather than just calling the tow truck... seems like the parental guardian wasn't aware the kid was misbehaving badly behind their back
Story 5: Karen getting caught lying... how satisfying!
Story 6: imagine lying to the owner's child... can't be me 🤷♀️
Comment story: huh. Never heard of Joan being pronounced as JoAnn... but I've heard weirder pronunciations
My husband’s great aunt was named JoAnn and her name was spelled like Joan.
Story 1: Don't cross a border on an f*ing first date! What was OP thinking ??
Man - I seriously love the fact that your Reddit reading channel has done SOOOO well and you have so many subs! I literally listen to Reddit nonstop when I wind down for bed and yours during the day when at work. I’m just happy you’re still here doing this for us every day man, thank you! Much love ❤️
Bamboo is an INSANE plant, not only does it spread fast, but it has a LOT of uses, you can use it as a pot (yes it resilient enough to stand fire, so you can cook stuff), you can make lightbulbs with it, houses, tools, traps (the famous pits full of spears, you can use Bamboo sticks/spears instead) and the list goes on, also, you can eat their sprouts (as a matter of fact, back on ancient times, on what is China today, the wild chicken's populations were coordinated with the times Bamboo sprouted and ancient humans noticed this and started constantly feeding those wild chickens for easy food)
I swear ever since he got a kid he's been making more and more dad jokes. Bamboozled?!?! Are you serious?
Keep it up
Today is my last day nannying my little baby, and I just can’t help but that you for these videos. Every morning after breakfast when I’m cleaning or playing with the baby listening to these videos kept me going and gave me some much needed adult content amongst all the kid songs! Always right on time in the morning. Thank you.
My Nana’s name was Joanne, and originally her mama spelled it as Joan. She had a teacher that refused to pronounce her name as Joanne and my Nana was so mad, she just refused to speak to her.
The day she turned 18, Nana got her name changed to the spelling above. Her mama was so bent out of shape, because there was a superstition that if you change a child’s name before they were 21, they would die.
That superstition ended up with 2 of my Uncles being named James due to a birth certificate error. One uncle was meant to be Jesse. Since they both entered the military as James, they didn’t get it fixed. We called them Uncle Bud and Uncle Bowser. This was waaaay before Mario in case anyone was wondering lol
The end of the first story is the funniest thing I have heard in a long time. OP deserves a medal .
Bad joke warning:
That's one way to weed out a bad neighbor
I’d have just installed “security mirrors” and aimed those directly at *his* windows. *ALL* of his windows. One handy little mirror for each one. The best part is: The way he stops this from working is by *doing the thing Op asked for initially.*
Spanish: I saw a waitress do that in French once in a restaurant I worked in. It was GLORIOUS! The worst part is: I lived in a country where French was not uncommon at all.
Story 3: Nice HOA… NICE and HOA. Never thought I would hear those next to each other.
The bamboo plan sounds freaking amazing. However as a plant and environmental enthusiast I’m gonna have to say if you live near a land with a forest, try to plant a more native fast growing plant in the area. Other than that, fast growing plants and weeds for the win!
Bamboo is part of the grass family and golden bamboo is one of the fastest growing grass/weeds not native to Texas but grows well in the humid environment. Want a native fast growing and beautiful tree? Plant a green verde or a Museum tree! Grows likes crazy and is beautiful and evergreen year round! And it’s naturally established in the state of Texas! Have a good one everyone! :)
Being able to keep eye contact with someone while you vomit all over their car is a wierdly specific - and gross - skill to have. xD
Plus seeding your annoying neighbour's yard with bamboo sounds like on the verge of pure evil rather than just petty revenge. But the whole 'I'm not going to stop shining this bright light into your bedroom' is a pretty crappy thing to do. Why do people just do these things?
It also means you are projectile vomiting.
Story 3 is well played but another option is big ass mirrors to reflect the light back in the windows of the neighbors house.
First story: when she described the way she threw up, the first thing that popped into my mind was the girl from The Exorcist
Fourth story, if there’s nothing against installing solar panels in the HOA, I would install some especially reflective panels and angle the light back towards his house, targeting a window. Add some fairy lights around your deck. If your neighbor starts complaining, tell them thanks for the light as it’s powering the fairy lights.
Hey rslash I’m a huge fan I’ve been watching to your videos everyday since 2020 and it’s a huge part of my day. I want to thank you for making my mornings a little bit better. Your laugh is so contagious that I’ll start laughing out loud in public. I hope you can bring back tales from retail or the front desk someday, it’ll be nice to hear them now that i got my first job in retail :0
story 2: just the thought of the girls talking in chilean Spanish it's so funny to me 😂😂 i can imagine them going like "amiga creo que le gustas" and the girl going "cállate weona" is the funniest thing😂😂
I had an incident re entitled people speaking another language. I'm Latino but look very Caucasian, and I can understand and speak Spanish very well.
Anyways, I was working the customer service counter wrapping gifts for the holiday season. I had this one Latino family come and request, in English, to have their purchases gift-wrapped.
I started doing the wrapping and midway through they speak Spanish and they are obviously talking about me, with insults, saying how Im so slow in wrapping gifts, its pathetic, etc.
I take this all in, remain stone-faced as I finish wrapping their gifts.
Once I finished I bagged up the packages and gave it to them, and smiling, ever so sickly-sweet say, in perfect Spanish, "here are your gifts, all wrapped up. I hope you have a Merry Christmas."
The looks on their faces were priceless. They silently collected their belongings and proceeded to walk out the store. As they were leaving I follow them out, and in Spanish say "I hope you have a wonderful New Year!"
They didn't look back as they rushed out of there.
As I turned around and went back to my post. The other people waiting in line overheard the conversation and applauded me for "killing them with kindness."
Hope Rslash will put this story up one day.
Listening to rSlash try to pronounce spanish words is my favorite
Bamboo is a severely invasive species and over time can destroy yards, pipes, and foundations. It's also hard to kill, because the root structure can go down several feet below where most root killer will reach. Several states outlaw bamboo for this precise reason.
This is why, in Texas, I planted bamboo to block out my neighbors. It really works great
Working in construction I usually got both ends of the extreme: really nice or really rude. Precovid and preggo w/my 1st, I was working in my family business's office. This guy called trying to sell something to the owner, my stepdad. I told him the owner wasn't available and wouldn't be interested. His exact words were "How would you know what he wants?" After taking a DEEP breath, I said, "Because I'm his DAUGHTER." CLICK. It took everything in me not to yell at him, but I did vent to a coworker. THE GALL.
1st story. damn..trying to clean up all that puke will be a detailing nightmare. If this guy is soooo in love with his car like OP says I know he will be obsessed with getting every little bit of puke cleaned up but getting it all out of all of the nooks and crannies and from behind any dash panels is not gonna be easy or cheap. Good for you OP.
Anyone who can play the long game, like OP that planted the bamboo, is someone to be feared.
I remember when my department, meaning my colleague and me prepared a proposal for a project that would be giving in revenue 3 million dollars a year. Our stupid supervisor decided that it was a good idea to tell the other department about it since they would be impacted, but we said that it wasn't a good idea since it was just proposal and it hasn't been approved, it could get stolen, but he didn't listen and invited the manager and both supervisors to a meeting with us. Well we ain't stupid and hatch a plan and we give the presentation with all the failure ideas instead of the real one and vaguely answer the questions. We did a great speech about all the revenue it would bring. We saw how both supervisors and the manager look when we finished so we told our supervisor he needs to submit the proyect before anyone could try to submit a similar one and he brush us off. Well a month passed and the stupid supervisor of us told us to talk to production because they submitted the plan for us in their namevand were approved. I was livid and went to the manager to talk about ownership and to add us to the project because it was our project not theirs and he said very slowly to me as if I was stupid, it's my project now and you and your department has nothing to do with us., you will not be included or metion in this project. Then I smile while grinning at him told him ok, it's your project now, remember I am too an engineer even if my position is not as one so good luck with the ideas you submitted hope they are good ones, remember it's your project now and your responsibility, not going to help you now or ever with it, have a good day then I left. 6 month in they started the trial period and it was the most epic disaster I had ever saw in that plant, they lost so much money it was laughable, plus they incurred in a lot of sanctions and heavy fines that he was literally breaking inside, it was so bad the project was not continued afterwards. He begged for us to help figure things out but we refused. Told him it is his plan not ours and his responsibility as the manager of that plant, I'm just a simple auditor with no real power or knowledge to help him out as he told me so many times. The thing is that the idea I sold them as so great that day, because we knew what to expect from them, was the worst one and was given by my college that has no knowledge of engineering, chemistry or anything of the sort. The little reputation he had he lost, not to mention the position he was in, that was was given by his dad and not even his dad had the power to save him from that fiasco, was taken away. He was planning a transfer but it was denied because the situation he was in, was really, really bad, he got dismissed to find better opportunities elsewhere. I am really good as a person but don't try to walk over me or over my friends . Like we said here in Spanish: del agua mansa libreme Dios que de la brava me libro yo. Like : May God protects me from wolf's in sheep's clothes. After that one the supervisor was adamant to get me out cause he knew, but that is another story.
The last story reminds me of catalan names (think Barcelona in Spain). Joan is a man's name and pronounced like Joanne. Xavi is not Chavi, which many would use, but Shavi... (No way you know people well enough to eat for free at our restaurant with your entire family)
Hey RSlash! Guess what??? Bamboo despite not being a member of the family most commonly associated with this law, does actually come under this law. A certain plant based law you are VERY frond of! 😏😏😏
One of my favorite things is people not realizing my husband speaks Spanish.
OP should have wrote down his cell number and gave it to the girl that was embarrassed to be the cherry on top.
I don't think I could handle knowing I'm being shit talked or even talked positively about in another language for an entire meeting only to shock them at the end. I'm tolerant but man, I couldn't take that for more than a couple minutes without breaking into laughter. I respond to insults with laughter only when about myself and I'm incredibly awkward about compliments. I become upset immediately when someone insults a friend though. I just couldn't keep a straight face and pretend I don't understand. XD Props to people who can!
I ran a Dr office where I did mostly everything.. including taking him to the airport when needed.. had an obnoxious pt bust in one day telling me he was a “ close personal friend “ and didn’t have to wait to see him.. thinking he was going to bullshit me … I said well that’s great ! You can get up at 0400 and haul his ass to the airport tomorrow morning.. he left and we never saw him again.. so much for close personal!
I've heard the Bamboo one on another channel but, it's still an awesome story!!!
fun fact:
"tete-a-tete" literally means "head-to-head".
French conversations must be wild!
Love hearing rSlash while getting ready in the morning
4:52 i refuse to believe this story is real. hard r/thathappened vibes
i'm chilean and our spanish is kinda hard so props to op but also that happens a LOT! people talking about hot people and teasing eachother sjkdhsj
Love me some bamboo! I have a neighbor who lets their dog bark non stop for hours at a time every time they let it out. They do nothing to curb the bad behavior. We thought about installing a privacy fence but its too costly & there are two big trees in the way. So bamboo it is! All the way down between our two houses. We did install weed barrier because it grows crazy fast. Plus I can use the canes to create nice arches/trellis & things for my garden.
Please don't plant invasive species.
7th story..I always have a great comeback whenever some tries that "Do you know who I am" bs. I just reply "No..but I know WHAT you are." That tends to shut them up.
As far as the neighbor with the light. Remember, there is a general nucence law for most things. If someone is depriving you of the use and enjoyment of your own property, you can probably sue. Will you win? Maybe not, but you can at least annoy them to try to get them to stop.
Listening to your daily videos helps me get through my shift)) Love your content so much
The last story... I have been blessed with three first names. When I owned my coffee shop (well, for all my life really), it was funny to hear sales people on the phone or in person ask for me by my last name. Big clue...they had no clue who I was.
The first story was gross and brilliant. I would have done the same if I were in OP's position. The guy totally deserved it!! 😆😆
Too much alcohol turned that woman into Regan from The Exorcist.
"nice HOA" lol all i hear about are HOA being nightmares
Story two: people like that mom are so stupid. OP used 'mom', meaning she's in the US. Spanish is the most common second language here because we border the largest Spanish speaking nation. In some states, you *need* to know to know Spanish in order to do effective business.
Never assume an American can't speak Spanish.
As someone who constantly got car sick a lot growing up I definitely understand OP1.
Rslash had a kid, just so he could do dad jokes lol. Love it
It's crazy to know the first story happened practically in my back yard. CANADA ROCKS 🇨🇦
Better your backyard than your backseat.
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Ironic that first story date is annoyed about wasting money on alcohol yet their first date was at a casino...
Story 4)
It's puzzling to me how adult people, when met with a diplomatic proposal, chooses to ignore it. How are they not going to assume that the next logical step is a retaliatory response.
Lol rslash just a tip for you - in Spanish, the "qu" does not make the same sound in English abd Italian. Think of it like a "k" in English. You can do it lol, just keep that in mind as you try! I'm no native speaker myself, but hey, it's helpful to at least know that the next time you go to a restaurant from a Spanish-speaking culture :)
Loved your try at Spanish, almost had it! I heard it and was confused but after watching the texts I was like ohhhh! (Not a native Spanish speaker, but I’m partially bilingual to a point)
Please 🙏 make a petty revenge Playlist 😊
Story 1: If he was worried about wasting money, why didn't he drink it then stay in a hotel?
The bad thing is, we can't even tell off Rslash for dad jokes, he's got a kid, literally the one qualification for making dad jokes.
Otherwise it's just a faux pa.
Story 3: It wasn't bc OP was white. There are white locals in Chile. There are white people (and Black, Asian, Middle Eastern, etc) all over central and South America and shockingly they speak Spanish like everyone else there does, it's not abnormal. He probably just looked/sounded like a tourist going sightseeing, bc he was.
Story 1 : MASSIVE RED FLAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OP, he wanted to make you drunk to have passionate hugging with you.
I can't agree with the person who planted bamboo. Wrecking the environment to get revenge on someone is a disgusting thing to do.
The thumb nail picture is a house in my town. I lived in the next street in 2014 when they issued the Cort order forcing him to do some gardening. My little English town pops up in the strangest places.
Petty< petty revenge
It sounds like he was at the Detroit/Windsor crossing cause I can see Detroit from my street and it’s 15 mins to Detroit’s dt, it’s really really close. The car type and pushyness, is something a lot of us girls deal with when US boys come over to our side and it’s not uncommon for them to spike drinks because once they’re done, they can just dip back over and never get caught. It happened to me and I managed to get home before it hit so I got lucky. But yeah, what OP went through? That’s the kinda shenanigans you’re gonna get going to Ceasars with someone who can’t drink stateside is gonna be like.
And I’m not saying all Americans are bad because I know so many nice ones, a lot here here have dual citizenship. I’m just talking about the creepy ones who unfortunately have become a stereotype and OP just so happened to go in a full fledged date with them. DT Windsor is getting as bad as DT Detroit and it makes me so sad to see just beautiful old cities get so run down :(
About the guy understanding chilean spanish, that's a great achievement; Chilean Spanish it's the final boss of spanish XD
Back when my dad worked, the owner of the company had a very German name that was kinda hard for Americans to pronounce and he was well aware of this. As a result, the screener for anyone wanting to talk to him was that you had to call him by his first name - anyone using his last was automatically send to voice mail.
100/10 pun, keep being an amazing dad.
i worked at a bakery for a while and the owner's name was stacia (pronounced stay-sha) - i can't tell you how many people came in wanting a discount because they were close with "stacia" (which they would pronounce stah-cee-uh) - i was like I'm not sure if stacia would approve of that but i'll leave a message for her that you came. they always dropped it at that point
"Quizas al proximo vez" is like saying "Maybe next later time"
9:30 that’s it someone take the mic from him 😂
The first story about op who was on a blind date is that when she reached her limit of alcohol is that she should have just left the idiot and got a ride back home and of course just not responded to the idiot anymore
The story about op who went to talk to his annoying neighbor about his damn back porch light is that instead of talking to him about changing it position is that he should have just taken the bulbs out and not give them back and or maybe remove the whole light fixture itself from the house