How you know a non jew has been around jews (light thread)

↑ Highstrung

Sun, Jul 16 2023, 3:04 pm

fleetwood wrote:

When don't you do lawns for a week?

People are makpid in the 9 days

Ruchy

Sun, Jul 16 2023, 5:28 pm

I was in bingo once and heard the Mexicans singing along with the music in the store, "azoi, tzi azoi- vuss farshteit a [gentile]" LOL

↑ zaq

Sun, Jul 16 2023, 6:55 pm

You know, all of this is heartwarming but not all that surprising, considering that most of you live in places like Lakewood where the dominant culture is orthodox Jewish. One absorbs the surrounding culture by osmosis. If you worked for, with and around Mexicans, you'd be trilling "Buenos Dias, Sra. Rodriguez, feliz Cinco de Mayo" in no time, and the Mexican ladies would be posting on their forum "Soymadre" about their child's Jewish speech therapist who greets them in Spanish, brings in tamales on Cinco de Mayo, and sings "La Bamba" and "Besame mucho" with the radio.

happywoman

Sun, Jul 16 2023, 8:50 pm

I was at the doctor today and my 4 year old needed a culture. He was telling the nurse - Don't do it, you're gonna choke me etc. After she finished she said to him "Please be moichel" !!!!!

Flip Flops

Sun, Jul 16 2023, 9:54 pm

When we told our Hispanic movers to put our beds in the bedroom near each other, one guy said, "the rabbi lets?"

↑ ap

Sun, Jul 16 2023, 10:02 pm

Flip Flops wrote:

When we told our Hispanic movers to put our beds in the bedroom near each other, one guy said, "the rabbi lets?"

naturalmom5

Sun, Jul 16 2023, 10:44 pm

My husband had a friend in college that asked why guys don’t shave during sefira
Just be nice to each other

A janitor in South Fallsburg used to say the Rosh Yeshiva said he doesnt allow changing your livush ( from litvish to chasidish)

So the janitor said ich been du zex yor un ich hub nisht gtoished mein zuken

( I am working here 6 years and I never change my socks )

shani1

Mon, Jul 17 2023, 8:55 am

Flip Flops wrote:

When we told our Hispanic movers to put our beds in the bedroom near each other, one guy said, "the rabbi lets?"

That is hilarious!
They must think we are crazy

peanut1

Mon, Jul 17 2023, 9:04 am

My non Jewish co workers like to point out whenever my skirt isn't covering my knees all the way. 🫣.
One lady threatened to call "the Rabbi."

West End Tova

Mon, Jul 17 2023, 9:59 am

I used to work at a desk opposite an African-American woman. Every morning, she put her bags down on her desk, heaved a great sigh, and said, "Oy, vey."

happytobemom ↓

Mon, Jul 17 2023, 11:07 am

My mother offered her cleaning lady the rest of the bread the day before Pesach. She asked, Don't you need that to hide the pieces?

↑ happytobemom

Mon, Jul 17 2023, 11:08 am

8x wrote:

In any bakery or pizza shop I can ask what's mezonos and hamotzi

Or yoshon!

↑ newdaynewdawn

Mon, Jul 17 2023, 11:11 am

I mistakenly left an open bottle of wine in m y fridge when I asken my cleaner to clean it. She opened it and said "hey I guess you cant use this wine anymore, but im happy to have it"
LOL

↑ BH Yom Yom

Mon, Jul 17 2023, 11:31 am

zaq wrote:

Soymadre

spoiled

Mon, Jul 17 2023, 12:09 pm

The ambasador asked us where we're travelling to, so we said Ny. He goes, yeah sure, but where? We said Williamsburg. So he goes, do you belong to the Aroinim or the Zali's?

↑ a2z

Mon, Jul 17 2023, 2:07 pm

spoiled wrote:

The ambasador asked us where we're travelling to, so we said Ny. He goes, yeah sure, but where? We said Williamsburg. So he goes, do you belong to the Aroinim or the Zali's?

↑ Shani...

Mon, Jul 17 2023, 3:25 pm

Another one; this is a beautiful story.

A minicab driver told me he has been working in our community for 2 dozen years and has never done a job without being paid. Even if someone forgot or didn't have correct amount they would drop into the office!

He also said that he once did a job, early in his career, where a wealthy person asked him to be taken to a specific shul and requested that he wait while he goes inside presumably to daven, he was waiting for some time and thought the man got a free ride and ran off. About 20 minutes later the man came back and paid him the fare plus waiting time.

He did say though that the one thing the hasidic jews don't know the meaning of is "ein minute"

LOL