Southwest Guy: Oyé, ven aquí por tu regalo gratís…
Traveler: ¿Qué cosa gratís?
Southwest Guy: Es un t-shirt *muy* bonita…que te doy después de que you fill out esté application de tarjeta crédito…
Traveler: ¡No quiero un feo t-shirt de Southwest, hombre!
Southwest Guy: Espera, hombre, you can die it black, man, and wear it camping!
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This was hilarious, ybonesy. Now instead of oozing hostile vibes as I pass him in the airport, I will chuckle to myself remembering your drawing and funny dialogue.
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I realized I should include the translation of the conversation:
SG: Hey, come here for your free gift…
Traveler: Free thing, what free thing?
SG: It’s a very lovely t-shirt, which I’ll give to you after you fill out this application for a credit card…
Traveler: I don’t want no ugly Southwest t-shirt, dude!
SG: Wait, dude, you can die it black, man, and wear it camping!
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Wow, what a power of a stroke. I like your Southwest Guy and was happy to vote for your blog.
Thank you. Viewing your blog refreshes me and you are the wonderful – the grand blog. Thank you
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This drawing and the “What if Madge were Chicana” show a wonderful sense of humor, especially with the dialogue below. I got a real kick out of both posts. You have a good ear for street talk. It always cracks me up to hear how heritage speakers of Spanish talk, just like I’m sure my overly correct usage of Spanish would give them cause to laugh.
I used to teach grammar to native speakers, and they loved teaching me their slang. They’d come to my classroom with their friends and get me to talk, just to make their friends laugh.
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The teethy smile is just deadly hilarious.
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ybonesy, I’ve been thinking, I wonder if we have a Northwest guy equivalent here in Minneapolis? You know, I’ve never flown Southwest. And I don’t remember seeing this guy in ABQ. But I love your drawing and dialogue. It makes me smile. This time I studied the background – you’ve got quite the sense of humor. 8)
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Southwest is really big in…the Southwest. I fly them all the time, because they are on time, easy, fast, friendly. The people who work for them seem to have a great attitude. So, in truth, I really like them, although I had to get over my bias against not having assigned seats and what at first seemed to me to be cattle calls. Now I’m hooked.
This fellow I saw at the San Jose airport. He was not Hispanic. I started drawing him on the plane ride home, mostly because he had this puffy hair that started way back almost in the middle of his scalp. He was quite interesting looking.
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