“For those of you unfamiliar with New Mexico, the town of Espanola has its own genre of jokes.”
Yes, Los Alamos Labs is just up the road from Espanola. Some of the most well educated technical people in the world have worked there. But Espanola is ChoLow City.
The Espanola jokes were so common, the Lab made it a dismissal offense to tell one. I’m sure they went home and told them. Smile.
A little over 20 years ago I used to train the IT people at the lab. Los Alamos is a curious place. They roll the sidewalks up at 9:00 pm, and there seem to be a lot of Chinese restaurants there for such a small town.
I have my own Espanola “joke.”
We were passing through there on our way to Taos one time, and we stopped at the McDonalds so kids could use the restroom and we could get coffee. I pulled into a parking space and the guy behind me started honking at me. He thought I had parked in the drive-thru lane that was 30 feet further over.
🙄
“So they can drive with their handcuffs on.” 🤣