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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Me lleva la chingada, y sufro.

A recent and very personal dicho perhaps, but one of my favorites.

This one is close and personal. When my dad asked his dying father, mi abuelo Raimundo, "Como estas?" Mi abuelo would say "Me lleva la chingada y sufro." Loosly translated this ment "It is not enough that I am fucked, but I am also suffering" I took the suffering to mean suffering stupid questions from a pendejo. As my own dad lay dying, I would ask "Hey Jefe, "como tu frjol?" (How you bean)? He would invaribly look me in the eye with a mixture of love and regret and quote his own Padre, and in a glance say "How do you think Im' doing, pendejo. Me lleva la chingada y sufro" I plan on printing this on my business cards.

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