So my wife has this thing about going to a certain thrift store. Its not an addiction...she can manage to go a day or so without visiting it, but it is a definite 3,4,5 times a week habit. So while I am enabling her by driving her there, she tells me to look at how many For Sale signs there are on this certain road...There were 7. I was expecting more!
But as I'm looking for For Sale signs, I saw another homemade sign. It very simply said..."Yarsel."
Now this is a word I've never encountered before. But since I'm a smart guy...I have a pretty good idea of what its author was trying to communicate.
My imagination sees a latino family...probably not legal immigrants. They are trying to make a few dollars, so they have an idea...Lets sell some junk in front of our house. The male in the family tells his friends about this idea, and is told...the Americans already do that. They call it a Yard Sale.
The latino husband goes back to his woman and tells her. We need to make a sign for our Yarsel. Since she is trained to do whats shes told, she does her best. When I try to say it with a crappy spanish accent...yarsel sounds just about right. So while the spelling may not be anywhere close to correct, the message was conveyed.
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