This was sent me by a friend who sells & repairs computers. It’s worth read.
I’ve already made a couple of my friends aware of what issue I’m beginning to deal with more and more often. I can only imagine how difficult it must be for teachers and maybe more so for the other students in the classroom that have to be held back so everyone can learn at the same speed. Though impossible if they have to use a translator type device. Available on Amazon for about 300 buckeroos.
For the sixth time in the past couple of months I’ve dealt with this exact problem below:
This time a woman I’d guess to be in her early 30s came in the store with 5 kids, the oldest being around 15, which I thought were hers. Or kids she “claimed” to be hers as I’ll explain down the road.
This woman couldn’t speak a word of English and according to her neither could the kids. HOWEVER, each of the kids and she were carrying a handheld translator allowing her to speak whatever her language was (Spanish) and it translated it into whichever language she’d programmed into it. Mine. (I noted the name on the device and after a little Internet searching I found them at various electronics stores. I’ll bet business is booming.) Anyway, after I told her for the 3rd or 4th time I didn’t repair TVs she asked if I sold them and before I could answer she pulled out an extended looking checkbook the type businesses often use. Told her that I only deal with computers, after which she finally put her checkbook away, but not before I inquired as to whether she owned her own business to have a booklet like hers. She said, no, we just got here a few months ago, after they came here through Texas. Looking over her shoulder I watched as the device translate her words into the fact that the checkbook was given to her by the USA so she could pay for her “OWN?” rent, groceries, and “HER” van parked out front. Of course I couldn’t keep my mouth shut so I said “WE” bought you a van? Oh no, I have to pay for it with the money they gave me. (I didn’t need a translator to understand how her “let’s make a deal with the US Government” worked.) Almost proudly she added that in order to get all the goodies she had to only tell the Biden Administration rep that the kids were hers and thankfully didn’t have to prove it. Damn near giggling she said the kids belonged to a few other adults too. Upon hearing that the oldest one hurried the others out of the store, probably figuring her temporary mom was “splaining” too much.
As she was walking out the door I said, “wasn’t that trip scary?”
“Na, I’ve gotten used to it.”
Am I the only one that thinks this is wrong?
