Anzaldua Blog Response

A couple of friends and I were in a store checking out some stuff and talking. An old lady walked into the store and she stopped and looked at us, we didn’t pay any attention to her, and kept on with our conversation, a couple of minutes later the store manager walked up to us and told us to watch our language because some costumers had complained. We told the manager that we weren’t saying anything bad, then the lady walked into the conversation and said “Yo los escuche usar palabras obsenas”, we asked her to tell us the words and she said that I used the word “wey” a lot and that my friends said others words which honestly I cant remember. I got frustrated trying to explain her that where we came from those words were normal and we use them on a daily basis. She got pissed off out of nowhere because the manager was from a town near ours and knew the words we were using which were not bad at all. She started saying things like “como pueden llamarse asi entre ustedes, esa es una falta de respeto para nosotros los mayores”. I told her “señora porfavor no sea ignorante, ya no estamos en los tiempos de antaño en los cuales todo el mundo hablaba de una forma, cada quien tiene su forma de hablar”. She told the manager that if he didn’t kick us out she was going to call the cops because she felt that we were being disrespectful to her and to other costumers. The manager spoke to us in English and told us that even though he knew that the lady was wrong he didn’t want the cops to get involved in some stupid argument so he asked us to leave. Before we left we told him that it was unfair that we were being kicked out for the way we talked, he apologize and we left.