I am embarrassed. On my last post I put said "Huevos Con Chorizo is Mexican for...." That was a mistake. It is Spanish for eggs and chorizo. I am upset with myself. I didn't even know I wrote it like that until the middle of the night I woke up and realized what I did.
My intent was not to be funny, sarcastic or culturally insensitive.
But life has taught me, intent doesn't mean anything. Ignorance of the insensitivity doesn't mean anything. A simple mistake doesn't mean anything.
You make a mistake like that, no matter intent or ignorance, and you could get fired. Knowing I made a public mistake like this brings back a lot of the terrible stomach feelings I would get at my old job. A simple typo, a minute of letting my guard down, getting the name of a Tribe wrong by one word, would get me called into the boss's office and a long lecture. Saying "no" and "I dont' know" also got me a long lecture on how I can't say those things.
Now Trump is president.
FML
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