Quote Originally Posted by iron maiden View Post
I gather sir, you too, are in the law enforcement profession. One of my fellow officers told me once....if you hate Spanish, that's fine....but learn just enough to save your life.
Oh, I completely agree. I am sure that I would not have the adverse reaction to Spanish if I had not felt forced into learning what little of it I know to preserve my own safety... I started out by memorizing a list of danger words and phrases and now I can communicate in a very rudimentary way on several issues, but most of them are related to work... I can order a beer as was the requirement.

Quote Originally Posted by rastewart View Post
Duh!! Where's the forehead-slapping smilie? I read w12code3's post too, and all I could think was, "What, he lives in a Spanish-speaking country where the police stop him all the time and he's always getting robbed?"
LOL< well, that was a fairly reasonable assumption based on the information contained in my post... that would be a hell of an existence!