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I am indeed looking forward to visiting the Palo in Arizona, and having some good, cheap, delicious, authentic Mexican food...Palo can order in Spanish...

Here is a story, maybe some of you have heard it, maybe not, but here goes...

On our first trip out west, when I was 12, Dad was excited about trying new foods(tho his specialty was sampling his hamburgers across the country)...

Anyway, on our way back from California, we stopped in a small town in New Mexico, or Arizona, cannot remember which one....we then went to a nice looking Mexican family style restaurant...dad wanted to sample Mexican foods...

Now, most of the waiters and waitresses in the restaurant did not speak English, nor did any of the customers...but they did understand a little bit of English...

Dad was able to convey that he wanted 1 taco and 1 enchilada for each member at the table...the waitress looked horrified...she kept shaking her head, 'No', too much food...but dad insisted...

So she reluctantly put in our order...when she came with the food, it was dads turn to be horrified...for what he had wound up ordering was one taco dinner, and one enchilada dinner for all of us...that meant the taco dinners were three tacos, with beans and rice, and teh enchilada platter was three enchiladas with beans and rice...

The waitress was right...this was way too much food...so we wound up eating what we could and we took the rest of the stuff with us to the motel, for midnight dining...

It was so cheap and so good, that the misunderstanding was trivial in retrospect....we always laughed about that, how dad tried to blow us all up, with tons of Mexican food...

Palo can order in Spanish...

I am superb spanish linguist
you are in good hands with me
mucho amore, Senorita Palocita

I do so enjoy reading stories about your father. He sounds like he was a wonderfully fun man. My father is gone now, too. He was the Italian version of your Dad, he was also one of a kind, and also lots of fun.

It's nice to have such good memories of our parents.

rofl I love your mexican restaurant story
your dad is such a doll