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In reply to the discussion: California Drivers Ranked The Worst in the United States in Annual Study [View all]Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)Cashiers here immediately use Spanish or English depending on what the customer looks like. They never get it wrong. I haven't seen 3 examples of getting it wrong. The only thing that sometimes happens is the cashiers assuming the customer must be a Spanish speaker, since it's more than 70% of the population here, so they default to Spanish without looking up.
Likewise when a car is approaching me from behind you can always tell if it will be a lane changing aggressive driver. They take 45 degree angles and barely miss every car. If it's not a Hispanic male behind the wheel I'm surprised. Second most frequent is a Hispanic female.
Driving in Miami is a frequent topic on Miami-specific forums. It's always the same themes...how dangerous it is and how much it changed for the worse as the demographics changed. Believe me, my descriptions are very tame compared to what shows up in those local threads.
The Hispanics in those threads seldom if ever dispute matters. But they try to blame drivers who go too slowly in the left lane. Meanwhile, the problems are hardly confined to the left lane. The lane changing is right to left, then back to the right, then further right into the far right lane, then back to center, then left, and so forth. Those drivers are so tunnel vision they never relax and merely drive. If any lane is 5 feet clear that's the one they have to be in...until a different one is 5 feet clear.
I wish I were exaggerating.