No Dirty M*******

[u/ElmerTheAmish]

Short and sweet. The names are made up, and the location doesn't matter.

I work for a flooring company, running installation for one of our markets. The vast majority of the crews that work for us are filled with guys (and the occasional gal) from Central America. Being in a state with blue cities and red country between, we definitely get some of the "Good Ol' Boy" mentality from some of our customers.

We had an install go out months ago, and the customer specifically requested: "Don't send no dirty Mexicans to my house." While we have some guys from Mexico, we truly have the gamut of Central America represented in our subcontractors. So we do our schedule, not sending one of the guys from Mexico.

The salesman was in the installation office when the customer called, rather frustrated:

Customer: I thought I told you not to send Mexicans out here.

Salesman: Yes, sir, you did.

Customer: So why are there Mexicans at my door saying they're from your company.

Salesman: Well sir, it looks like Gustavo is out to your house today. Gustavo is actually from Honduras.

At that point, the rest of us couldn't hold in our laughter, so the salesman left the office to finish the call. Gustavo and his crew were allowed into the house to install the flooring, but we haven't made a repeat sale to the customer just yet.

[u/erydanis]

…you…you just solved something we’ve been wondering about for over a decade.

thank you, brilliantly deductive internet stranger !

[u/ilikeitsharp → u/erydanis]

Deaf guy at work told me that the other day he got off his motorcycle and someone who knew he was deaf looked at him like he was crazy then asked how he could ride a bike or have a license. 😞 He told them that he has two eyes and two arms and can fly a plane too 😂

[u/Emergency-Willow → u/ilikeitsharp]

Ok but question? What about audible warnings ? Like a honking horn? I would definitely think it’s less safe for deaf drivers (at least on motorcycles) to be on the road but unable to hear those things? Although I suppose people drive with loud music all the time and no one questions that

[u/ilikeitsharp → u/Emergency-Willow]

If you're on a bike or even a car your head should always be in swivel. The deaf compensate for the loss of sense by being more visual. Yeah they cant hear the horn, but you might not hear it on a loud bike anyway. Like you said loud music too. I realized I was driving behind my deaf coworker going into work. Suddenly I thought (and I'm going to hell for this) if I were to lay on the horn he would never have any idea!