'This girl's face turned RED': Woman talks behind roommate's back in Spanish, doesn't know roommate is also fluent

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    Font - My roomie didn't know I spoke Spanish and tried to talk behind my back For context, I'm Afro Latina but most people just assume I'm African American, and don't speak Spanish. Well the other day I was getting ready and I overheard my roommate on the phone with her mom talking in panish, and most importantly there were talking some mad ( about me.
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    Font - More context: I have a long term boyfriend and more often than not I spend the night at his house, but I think it's super important to keep my own place as well for my own independence. But I guess to her she assumed I am a "street Walker" and stay with a "different man every night."
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    Font - -her words So what do I do? I burst out into the living room and say "wow, I didn't know you spoke Spanish too!" (In Spanish) and y'all this girls face turned RED. She just smiled and said, "oh yeah" and said goodbye to her mom and went to her room.
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    Font - Icapaz 20 hr. ago I'm an overweight 50yo white male with a slight southern accent... that just happened to live the first 10 years of my life in PR and am fluent in Spanish. Yeah... I've had similar stuff happen to me. Shocks the out of folks that don't know me on work sites. You handed it great! I usually do the same off handed/on topic comment that results in a bug-eyed "oh l'look. 6.4k Reply Share
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    Font - seanprefect 20 hr. ago . I went to a midwestern college but we had a lot of international connections. In school I worked at the IT help desk, and once a semester every student living in the dorms had to bring their computer to IT so we can make sure it's updated and doesn't have viruses (say what you will but that was the rule then) Anyway These French exchange students come by and drop off their laptops,
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    Font - they have pirated windows so they can't be updated. I say "sorry I can't approve these they have pirated windows, you can go to the bookstore and get a legit key for 20 bucks and I can help you install it" they reply "we didn't do anything wrong" I say "I'm not the morality police I don't care but without a legit key I can't help you" they speak in French and say "he's an idiot we'll come back and ask someone else" to which I reply in French "you're welcome to try but they'll give you the
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    Font - FalconPunchInDaFace. 20 hr. ago You could have did a long con, never revealed you knew Spanish and kept eavesdropping. Imagine all the you'd hear over the time of the lease. 1.4k Reply Share
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    Font - rionaster 20 hr. ago shoulda called your own mom and started saying the same thing about her in spanish 1.1k Reply Share
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    Smile - Agreeable_Sky1562 OP. 19 hr. ago This would've been good lol 467 Reply Share
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    Font - dbear848 18 hr. ago I used to travel to Japan on business. I'm a pale guy with blue eyes, but I got a minor in Japanese when I was in college. I generally let comments slide, but one day on the subway a woman said quite loudly how much foreigners stink. I replied in my most polite Japanese that I thought people in Japan had a reputation for being polite, but I was mistaken. 706 Reply Share
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    Font - fistbumpbroseph · 20 hr. ago . Whenever I see something like this I am reminded of some words from a truly great man: "I am not responsible for your assumption. [...] Not being able to speak is not the same as not speaking. You seem as if you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk. It makes it easier to find out how full of they are." -Detective Inspector Yang Naing Lee, Hong Kong Police Force (Edit: extra space fixed) 255 Reply Share
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    Font - 00 Hooch_Pandersnatch 18 hr. ago My mom told me this story once. My mom and dad were having lunch once in Chinatown... (this was long ago, like 40-50 years ago). They had recently migrated to America and tended to stick to Chinatown because of language and cultural familiarity.
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    Font - Anyways, they were eating lunch and an American guy was sitting at the table next to them. My mom says to dad, in Chinese: "wow, look at this white guy eating duck!" To which the man turns around and in perfect Chinese says: "yes, and it's quite good!"
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    Font - My mom said she was so embarrassed. At least she wasn't really talking him. And probably learned a good lesson about not making assumptions about other people. 178 Reply Share
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    Rectangle - Morningpumpkin. 18 hr. ago Art of War says never interrupt and enemy when they are making a mistake T108 Reply Share
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    Font - JU Simply2Basic 19 hr. ago . My wife is a tall redhead with very pale skin. Many years ago was in Spain at the University and is fluent in Spanish. The gossip she would hear was crazy. Occasionally someone would make a rude comment about her hair colour or height. She told me how she would berate them in Spanish. Her and her Spanish friends would laugh afterwards. 84 Reply Share
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    Font - SuccessGlittering620. 20 hr. ago I love doing this to people who don't know I speak Spanish..... it's pretty exciting to bathe in their embarrassment. She's also a hating and no telling who she has told you are a lady of the night. 64 ♡ Reply Share

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