| Conversation between my mom and her mother (over the phone, in Spanish) | |
| Mom: | Well, check yourself with your thermometer. |
| Grandma: | I don't have one. |
| Mom: | What? You don't have a thermometer? |
| Grandma: | No. |
| Mom: | Typical. |
| Grandma: | What? |
| Mom: | None of the Mexican families here have a thermometer. None. I'll go to a client's house, and the mom will have a sick kid, but they don't know how bad the fever is because they don't have a thermometer. |
| Grandma: | Huh. |
| Mom: | I guess it isn't Mexican to have a thermometer. |
