Whats funny is all the Mexicans (Latinos) handing out the cards and smacking the stacks of them as you walk by.
I was calling them “Card-Slappers”, as they flipped their cards at pedestrians. The card smacking action must get more people to grab them. My Dad noticed the large numbers of Hispanic employees, and this triggered prolific comments regarding immigration and employment issues. At one point we were in Harrah's and had just left our room, and as we walked down the hall he stopped and spoke to a supervisor and asked her what percentage of the cleaning crew was Mexican. The attractive African American woman replied, “I’d say about eighty.” Then my dad followed with, “I’m not a reporter, and I promise not to quote you on this, but how many would you estimate are illegal?” I was in horror he had the nerve to ask that, and as I walked quickly ahead of them to the elevator, she chuckled and said, “About half” ... I guess this belongs in the Awkward Moments thread. Also, when my father and I passed large groups of touring Asian people, as they filed by, he would try to guess where they were from by asking them, for example, he would say, “Chinese?”. All three times the group was Korean. I would describe one Korean man's reaction to my father's guessing game as an expression akin to, "You idiot"
I noticed Faith’s card says she’s free, so she’s going into my keeper set and is not available for purchase or trade. I think I will stash these cards in the back of one my binders behind my sheets of Wacky Packages. I don’t want to throw them away; my wife might find them in the trash and get upset. I need to remember which binder they are in, which I’m sure I won’t ... until months or years from now, at some very inappropriate moment.
OK, after this slight diversion, back to TWYC