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Here in my neighborhood the languages would be English, attitude, as well as Cajun and Spainglish.

I have neighbors whose families have been here since before the Declaration of Independence. They speak Spanish with poor fluency in English. Until the 1970s there were few English speakers here. So, some of the old timers just never had a reason to learn. They are mostly gone now but I knew many when I first came here. 

Going to a Halloween party tonight it should be fun.

I have relatives whose ancestors were here before Columbus that lack fluency in English. 😉

We have metal deck chairs and I knew the one that I always sit in had a rusted, broken weld holding one of the arms to the back. Earlier after sitting down, I noticed the chair was rocking. No sooner after thinking that I should change chairs, bloop! I was sitting on the deck. It gave me a good laugh at myself. 

If you go to a government office be sure to specify Cajun-American. 😉😁

Thankfully no injury, just silent movie type comedy.    

Glad no harm was done!

Got up to Second Mesa made the deliveries for the day, calling the lone hotel to reserve a room, call wouldn’t go through cell signal was fine.
Drove to the hotel, all locked up and the adjoining restaurant was locked up too. This is a hotel that on their website says open 365 days a year…

Then saw the info sign, accepting applications for, hotel manager, cooks, servers, housekeeping…. The Hopi employees must be on the warpath!

The hotel is so, so… it is always clean, but it needs a renovation. The food has always been excellent.

Hour drive to Tuba City, hour drive back to service 3 patients in Keams Canyon, White cone before the 4 hour drive home.

Not a lot of options out here.😂

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I’ve stayed at that place. It’s on my list (along with the “restaurant”) as the worst service ever experienced. Everything done with a liberal dollop of hate.

I can personally vouch for the ability of traiteurs to heal certain ailments/health issues.  As a kid in elementary school I had a bad case of warts on my hands.  My parents took me to a local general primary doctor.  He burned them off with some type of electrode.   A few months later I developed new warts on my hands.  I was taken back to the doctor and he burned them off again.  A few months later I had another round of new warts that broke out.   Back to the doctor again.  This time he refused to burn the new warts off since it was a painfull unpleasant experience for me each time and very obviously was not ending further break outs of new warts.  He suggested to my parents that we try to use a traiteur.  My parents asked if I would be willing to try healing by a traiteur.  Of course I was willing to try almost anything else.  With the knowledge and respect I had for my primary care doctor, I went into the traiteur treatment experience believing if my doctor felt it was worth trying, then there must be a potential success basis for such treatments.

My traiteur asked me to identify the oldest current wart on my hands.  He then touched that wart and said some unintelligible prayer while touching that wart.  I had to return 2 more times, a week apart for him to touch my oldest wart while praying in the same way over it.  Approximately a week after the 3rd traiteur treatment I looked at my hands and every damn wart on my hands were completely gone!

Apparently belief by the patient that the healer's efforts could work played a part in successful treatments.  After 2 painful burning procedures by my primary doctor and knowing that he was the one recommending that I try using a traiteur, it was relatively easy for me to believe such a treatment could work.  I bring up this last point because my mother was also treated by the same traiteur for warts on the same schedule that I went to.  She did not believe as freely as I did that such treatments would work.  However, after she saw that my warts disappeared, she then fully believed that such treatments worked and her warts disappeared 2 weeks after mine did.  Both of us never experienced warts thereafter.

One is not allowed to pay traiteurs.  You may only express thanks or it won't work!

As oldcajun says "I Garronte it works" from a very personal experience!

When I worked freight, where they are running on razor thin margins the office clerks had what appeared to be desks and chairs that looked like they came from a surplus auction 30 years ago. Everything was ergonomically horrible. I told a clerk that she needed to go buy a quality chair and she said that she did not want to subsidize the company…yeah, she ended up having issues that the stroll on her breaks would not solve.

Eventually a later terminal manager ended ip buying quality chairs and elevated work stations where they coukd stand if they wanted to, Voila!

She eventually got better, bit put herself through torture.

I had a boss that didn’t want to replace a seat in a truck that was worn out, I said the magic words “It is a safety issue”, told him I was going to make an appointment to see a back doctor and file with HR.

He got pissed and ordered me a top of the line Eldorado seat so he could prove to his superiors how expensive it was to replace truck seats….that kinda backfired on him though, his superiors agreed that 14 hours the drivers should not be fatigued from poor seating.😉

You dirty, low down, old #&@*!