The Spanish Stroke
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Let me start by saying my wife and I have a deal, if one of us is having a stroke in the presents of the other we are too wave our hands in the air and say speak as much gibberish as possible. I don’t know why we have this plan in place, and I’m not sure how much good it would do if it did happen, but like every good scout, we are prepared.
For one of the first times in recent years, at least that I can remember, my house was quiet. Everyone was home, but it was nearly silent. This doesn’t happen much with 3 cats, a 2-year-old and a wife that loves to talk.
I didn’t notice it at first. I was quietly sitting in another room reading a book (which also doesn’t happen very often), when my wife came running into the room laughing. She has a laugh that makes you want to laugh right along with her even though you have no idea what’s so funny. So I put my book down, started laughing and kept asking what was so funny.
Sukkie and Bill
Eventually she caught her breath and was able to tell me. She was watching TV, one of her favorite shows ‘True Blood‘, and thought she was having a stroke and no one was there to help her. As she put it, she was flipping through the channels and saw ‘True Blood’ on HBO, it was the end of the episode that she missed because we record and watch them late at night and she must have fallen asleep. She selected the channel and the stroke hit. Confused and disoriented she continued to watch Bill and Sookie talk to each other in Spanish.
Scared out of her mind, she didn’t move, she didn’t say anything; she just sat and watched, waiting for it to pass. My wife doesn’t speak Spanish, so she had no idea what they were saying. All she knew what that she didn’t know what was going on and she must be having a stroke.
After a few minutes she figured it out. She was embarrassed but is still able to laugh at herself.
Every once in a while, just in my poor attempt to be funny, I will flip on one of the Spanish channels and watch it waiting for her to enter the room. She either doesn’t notice, or is ignoring me completely, but one of these days I’ll get her.
I guess everyone is entitled to his or her own 7OE moment. Have you ever had a 7OE moment? Let us know about it, you’re not alone.
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The 70E moment is more understandable than the Spanish Stroke. I mean, whizzing by a hand-written sign and misinterpreting it would be far more likely to happen than to, well, misinterpret Spanish! Who doesn’t know the sound of Spanish, even if you only know two words?!?
Does Spanish stroke is the same with “stroke”?
I’m sure in normal circumstances she would be able to spot the Spanish Language. But when watching a show that you’ve only ever seen in English, mixing in a little paranoia and late night confusion, on a channel you didn’t even know you had, and I’m sure I would think something is terribly wrong. That’s what makes it a 7OE moment, the dumb filter breaks down for whatever reason, you think or say something irrational, but quickly realize that it happened and have a good laugh with your fiends.
I guess if your asking is a Spanish Stroke the same as a “Stroke”, well yes and no. Yes, because for a moment she thought she was having a real stroke. But No because, as far as I know, there is nothing actually called, the Spanish Stroke.
So in this case it’s just a catchy title of a blog post that I may someday turn into a holiday gift t-shirt for my wife.