A different prejudice

[DallasSteve2]

My wife went to get her hair trimmed a few months ago.  The stylist was a Mexican woman, about 25 years old.  She saw me and they talked about men, among other things.

The Mexican woman told my wife she won't date gringos because they're "tacaño".  If you don't know what that means, then you may be too tacaño to buy a Spanish/English dictionary.

Life's so unfair when you're a gringo.  I think I'll sit around and cry in my cereal all morning.

Steve

PS. I'm as tacaño as they get.

[lswote]

... in response to A different prejudice, posted by DallasSteve2 on Aug 8, 2003

I can't find tacaño in my dictionary.  Is it a slang term?

[HeyNow]

... in response to Re: A different prejudice, posted by lswote on Aug 8, 2003

Bruce, No one can accuse you of that.

[HansErich]

... in response to Re: A different prejudice, posted by lswote on Aug 8, 2003

It means that you are cheap.

Tacano= being cheap.

regards

Hans-Erich.

[surfscum]

... in response to Re: A different prejudice, posted by lswote on Aug 8, 2003

It's in my dictionary. It means stingy or miser. My novia says that gringos are stereotyped as being tacaño. After reading Traveller´s comments about agency users, it´s no wonder.

[cancunhound]

... in response to A different prejudice, posted by DallasSteve2 on Aug 8, 2003

Man you are tacaño, I notice how you describe items like "my wife" and "my cereal"!
I just wish "my" wife had a Mexican hairdresser, since she discovered Toni & Guy in Big D she gets all kinds of crazy ideas from uppity chileños and such (I say nuke NorthPark and all tiendas in it).

[DallasSteve2]

... in response to Re: A different prejudice, posted by cancunhound on Aug 8, 2003

Please explain.  I don't understand how describing my wife as "my wife" has a conotation of being tacaño (although I am).  She's not "your wife", she's "my wife".  How else do I say it?  What would a non-tacaño Steve say?

"The woman I married" went to get her hair trimmed a few months ago.

"The person to whom I am a husband" went to get their hair trimmed a few months ago.

"The Caleña who is costing me a fortune" went to get her hair trimmed a few months ago.

You gotta put your foot down.  No Toni & Guy.  I take her to SuperCuts.

Steve

[cancunhound]

... in response to Clarification, Please, posted by DallasSteve2 on Aug 8, 2003

I'll second that.  Too late for SuperCuts in my camp, but at least now she understands that if she just skips Toni & Guy several times, that'll save enough for a plane ticket back to Cali with plenty of change left over for the cut/tint down there.

[burbuja2]

... in response to A different prejudice, posted by DallasSteve2 on Aug 8, 2003

When you cry, the world cries with you.  Yes, you have proved that we too are victims of rampant generalizations and bias.

Su tacano amigo,

Burbuja2