Overheard behind the counter at the furniture store
Earlier this month. Obviously.
Clerk: "What's today's date? May fidth, right?"
Clerk 2: "Yeah."
Delivery guy: "Cinco day Mayo."
Clerk: "Whassat?"
Me: "It's a Mexican national holiday."
Clerk 2: "Ain't that like Spanish New Yeah?"
Me: "A big victory over the French back in the 1800s."
Delivery guy: "Well, alls I know is I'm goin' out drinkin' latah."
Clerk: "Ahh you shuah? I know some Spanish people and they ain't nevah mentioned Cinco day whatevah befoah."
Me: "Are they Mexican?"
*blank stare*
What was it that Marx said? The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing. Well, in this case, it sure as hell ain't revolutionary..."