This woman is a librarian???

Went to the local book sale this morning.

Went upstairs to the library (which is in a small former Methodist church) to say hi.
We asked them if their internet service provider was any good since we are thinking about changing.

One woman said "I got mad at my cable provider because the channel we usually watch was running Spanish programs, and I don't want to learn Spanish."
She kept yakking.

I said, "I watch those programs to learn Spanish. I took two years of Latin and two years of Spanish and I WISH I was fluent in Spanish. We never had native speakers to talk to in school."

She said "They don't wanna learn English."

I said, "Our friends in Houston that are Hispanic are bilingual."

She said they drained the economy.

I said, "I read that they pump in 11.2 billion dollars a year more than they take out. They pay into fake Social Security accounts they will never get the benefits of. They pay sales taxes and property taxes."

She ignored that. She said, "I know a lot of em don't pay any taxes at all."

Then she said, "And Wal-Mart has started a Mexican Foods aisle."

I wanted to ask her if she had ever eaten a single enchilada or taco in her entire life.
I didn't.

How can you grow up in Texas and never eat Tex-Mex???

:banghead: :grr:

This woman is a LIBRARIAN and doesn't believe in learning "furrin langwidges"???

:banghead:

This is why I go crazy every single day. I argue with the stupid people and I feel like I am banging my head against human brick walls. Yesterday it was the clerk in JP court and she said the judge wouldn't dismiss the ticket or reduce the fine, and I told her about "judicial discretion". I have a fucking Juris Doctor degree.

Absolutely sucks the life out of me.

Freaking morons...
plenty of bad to say for 40% of their tax-paying neighbors.
Irregardless of birth country- they are here now, buy our crap and spend in our shops.
You could have easily been speaking to one of my "Saved" neighbors.

pedos = farts :rofl:

I knew about putas, pendejos and pinches, but not pedos!! :evilgrin:

So I took Japanese instead.

it should be good enough for everyone...right?

:sarcasm: just in case someone posts faux outrage at the above statement, since there's no sense of humor anymore

If he comes back, he better learn good American English!

Otherwise, he might as well act Shakespeare-like on effin BBC.

:hi:

Then they are behind the curve on that one. Lots of stores have those. I love Mexican food.

Libraries draw from the surrounding community. So, if you're in a community where that sort of belief is the standard, it's fairly likely that your librarian/paraprofessional/volunteer may have those same beliefs.

i lived in austin for 7 years and have been to mexico at least 7 times.

mexican food is infinitely better than tex-mex.



as for your librarian, not everyone loves or believes in their job.

I was in a gas station where they served Mexican food. Some grumpy white guy came in, looked at the menu, and complained loudly: "Why don't you people serve real American food, like pizza?"

enlighten those who truly prefer to be willfully ignorant. You will never change their minds because facts have nothing to do with how they think. They think on an emotional level. they're slaves to their rage.

they sometimes have volunteers help at those book sales. I guess I'm just looking for any reason to hope this wasn't a librarian. I thought librarians were educated and knowledgable therefore tolerant *sigh* but every group can have it's hateful idiots.

My youngest stepdaughter is married to a Mexican man. We've met his parents. They are the nicest people. I don't know what they do for a living, but they do work, and have a very nice home in El Paso.

So my stepdaughter and her hubby ended up moving to Del Rio last December because of his job.

He is a US Marshal.

"Draining the system"???


He escorts prisoners daily to and from prison. He may even someday be placed on a plane protecting her ass from bad guys.


Anyway, about the TexMex food. My stepdaughter was born and raised here in Mass and grew up eating the rather bland food. I love it, but that's just me. My taste buds can't take a lot of spice anyway. So the stepdaughter, after being in Texas for only 5 months is eating TexMex food and loving it.

I grew up in Pasadena (TX, not California, nothing fun happens in Pasadena, TX!) and went to the ORIGINAL Monterey House restaurant as a kid.

Now it has changed totally and the last place I saw was called Monterey's.

Everything is spicier now and I really have to watch what I eat since I am allergic to tomatoes and peppers. I like spinach enchiladas and sour cream enchiladas when they have them.

I did not eat spicy food growing up and later found out about my food allergies.

I would go to Mexican places as a kid and get refried beans and corn tortillas, roll 'em up and eat 'em. Good stuff.

Seriously. You're wasting your time on people like this and it's stressing you out. Why bother? The world is full of shitheads and nincompoops and always will be - you can't cure them. There's just no point in getting into these battles with strangers that go no where.

the way things are going, libraries are expendable.

This is a little town. The lady who is the librarian, her son bought the old church and sarted a non-profit corporation. Then he died. So I'm not sure what kind of training they have.

Before this one was founded, they did not have a city library, that I know of.

This is a kid who had some severe learning difficulties. It is an over-simplification, but think of it as both disgraphia and dyslexia - p, b, q, and d were all the same letter to her. She would also rearrange letters when trying to spell - "How do you spell 'THIS'?" - "S..."

In second grade, she couldn't spell most three and four letter words. The district worked really hard with her and she's had an IEP since 2nd grade. She took Spanish in middle school, four years of Latin, two years of French, and German this year in high school, and she's been in honors English and honors History the last two years. They wanted to take her out of the IEP program when we met in February and we refused to allow it because there are some benefits that we wanted to reserve the right to retain (she didn't use them).

The kid has a vocabulary that is beyond amazing and can actually spell now! I give a shitload of credit to the school district for working so hard to help her overcome her difficulties, but the foreign language definitely had an impact on her ability to deal with her English problems - especially Latin.

Thanks to Gov. Corbett, the district got shafted by cuts in state aid and the proposed budget eliminates the Latin position, the middle school Spanish position, some of the special aid positions, and the 4th grade band teachers. I've got a bitch letter from hell swirling around in my gray matter. At least I've got a three-day weekend to calm down a bit before composing it and putting it in the mail. I'd send a copy to the Governor, but he doesn't give a shit about education and would probably frame it as a trophy.

As for your librarian, cut out the logo from a Tex-Mex or Mexican restaurant bag every time you go to one. Save them up and each time you return a book, slip the logo in with the due-date card. She's not in the right profession.

Next time, ask her where she's from because she doesn't sound like any Texan I know.