No big deal, but once again, whilst grilling, a stranger of a particular presenting identity, just *had* to confront me. In this case I was grilling next to the other public grill being used by a Spaniard and we were, naturally, speaking to one another in Spanish. This person...
...walked up to us (socially distanced) and asked "are you using BOTH grills?" I replied "Well, *I* am using this one here." The person realized they assumed we were a common "you" incorrectly and doubled down by exclaiming, "well, ugh, both of the other grills are not working!"
I'm not a maintenance person but I knew the person was wrong so I walked with them to another grill and started it. This made them even more angry and they complained that it did not work properly. I walked away. This bullshit gets old. It must be the 6th time here just grilling.
It is routine for our grills to have multiple French, Hebrew, Farsi, Arabic, Tagalog, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, or Spanish speakers at them and different linguistic groups quickly learn who speaks what languages. There is zero reason to make assumptions based on language.
Also, everyone speaks perfect English, too. In fact, most adults have PhDs around here. So there is perhaps less reason for provincial attitudes or treatment. At least you would think so...
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