Conversations at Casa López – Part 6

Carlos has been on a roll lately with bilingual mix-ups! Here are a few of my favorites. (I’ll definitely have to do a post like this soon with just my own Spanish mistakes to keep things fair!)

Carlos: The coffee doesn’t taste good with just a little sugar.
Tracy: The problem is you don’t want to go cold turkey. You’ll get used to it faster like that.
Carlos: But I don’t want to be a cold turkey.

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(Watching “The Hunger Games”)
Carlos: Wait, so where is Cactus right now?
Tracy: Her name is Katniss, not Cactus.

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Tracy: You need to just let it go and move on.
Carlos: No way, I’m not going to just throw this under the rock.

(Carlos confusing the idiom “Sweep it under the rug.”)

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(Switching around the radio stations in the car. “Sweet Home Alabama” comes on the radio.)

Tracy: I’ll leave it for you, I know you like this song.
Carlos: Yeah, but I like better the one with Chris Rock.
Tracy: I think you mean Kid Rock.