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so i work front desk at this airport hotel and during the interview my manager asked if anyone spoke spanish because apparently half the guests coming through there only speak spanish and they were desperate for bilingual people. i took like 2 years in high school like ten years ago and for some reason instead of saying not really my dumb ass went uh yeah a little because i thought they meant like directions or basic customer service crap. huge mistake. gigantic. immediately i became the spanish guy. first week i was basically just smiling and saying stuff like tarjeta please and desayuno at six and baño over there and honestly most people figured it out themselves anyway. plus people hear a white dude say three spanish words confidently and they act like youre un ambassador or something. then coworkers started hyping me up like omg youre a lifesaver we finally have someone bilingual and i got too awkward to admit i was basically running on Dora the Explorer vocabulary and vibes.

so i just kept nodding along. every shift somebody would drag me over like hey can you help translate and id stand there sweating through my marriott polo saying random broken sentences while praying the guest understood enough english to meet me halfway. sometimes they did. sometimes they looked confused but polite. one guy asked if i was from portugal which honestly shouldve been my sign to stop. but instead i doubled down for EIGHT MONTHS. eight. months. everybody fully believes i speak fluent spanish now. my manager literally introduced me to new hires as our bilingual staff last month and i just stood there like a hostage. then last week this family comes in after their flight got canceled and the whole lobby was already chaos because the shuttle driver called out and somebody clogged the toilet in room 214 with what looked like an entire rotisserie chicken from popeyes i swear to god. little kid screaming grandma pissed off everybody exhausted from airport delays. my manager sees them arguing and immediately goes THANK GOD HES HERE and points at me like i just arrived to negotiate a hostage release. i walk over and instantly realize im cooked because theyre talking FAST fast. like real actual spanish not textbook hola me llamo bullshit. i caught maybe every fourth word. hotel. niño. aeropuerto. no sé. maybe. honestly i dont even remember. i panicked so hard my brain started pulling random italian from duolingo because apparently under stress i become european soup.

i said something like uno momento por favore la habitación esta maybe pronta and the grandma looked at me like i had just spit on the pope. the dad got angry immediately and started saying stuff faster and louder and i just kept nodding and throwing out random words hoping one would land. at one point i accidentally said arrivederci. ARRIVEDERCI. why would i say that. eventually this other guest stepped in and started translating normally and i swear the entire family looked relieved like somebody finally unplugged the malfunctioning robot. turns out they thought i was mocking them on purpose because my spanish sounded insane and honestly fair enough. apparently they filed a complaint saying i was making fun of them. now HR wants me and my manager in early tomorrow morning to clarify concerns regarding guest communication which sounds corporate for youre about to get your ass blasted. the funniest part is my coworkers keep telling me not to worry because im literally the best spanish speaker we have.

brother i dont even know what tense estoy is. i have spent 8 months surviving off confidence and the word gracias. i feel actually sick. like i could have ended this at any point by just admitting hey btw i barely speak spanish but every week that passed made it weirder and now im probably gonna lose my job because i was too socially awkward to say my bad i exaggerated. tbjh part of me is considering just learning spanish overnight before the meeting like some Rocky montage shit but i opened duolingo earlier and got humbled by a cartoon owl asking me where the library is

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Way back in the mists of time in 2010, he actually takes Roy's claim against the masseur seriously and doesn't just mock him for it like Jen does.

Yes, his seriousness about it is played for laughs, just like everything else (it is a comedy after all), but Moss was on the right side of this one and a good deal more enlightened about male victims of sexual misconduct than a lot of people would have been at the time, or indeed today.

for me it has to be Moss and Richmond 100%.

Ever since IT Crowd first aired Moss was instantly my favourite. I would love having a conversation with him, even though knowing him it wouldn’t exactly go anywhere.

I would also be friends with Richmond, he’s so sweet and he was also terribly mistreated. I’d lie in a literal cradle of filth for him, he’s so precious.