Mexico has a poor sewer system. Nothing can be flushed beyond excrement (and water). There are warnings and reminders about this in nearly every bathroom — even in the airports.
As I was about to leave the Italian Coffee Company, my mesero (waiter) asks, in Spanish, “You speak English, right?” I said yes. He asked if I would write out how to say: It doesn’t work in English. I was puzzled at first and asked a couple more questions.
It turned out that the bathroom was out of service, and he wanted to know how to: create a note to inform English-speaking patrons and how to tell them. I wrote: The bathroom is out of service on the receipt he handed me. Then he had me repeat the phrase three times as he echoed, carefully pronouncing each syllable.
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