Summary: 21. A Mexican doesn’t “improvise”…he “throws himself over like El Borras” (se avienta como Guillermo Rivas). 22. A Mexican doesn’t drink “mineral water”…he drinks “Tehuacán” (yes, that’s the name of a town in Puebla). 23. A Mexican doesn’t “get lost in his own thoughts”…he’s “thinking about the crab’s immortality.” 24. A Mexican doesn’t “get distracted”…he “goes slobbing or doing like a papalote” (anda baboseando o papaloteando). 25. A Mexican doesn’t “dress up”…he “puts on some nice pipiris.” (se pone pipiris nice). 26. A Mexican is not “lazy”…he “has a hard roe that’s just too much” (tiene una hueva que no puede con ella). 27. A Mexican doesn’t “mix”…he “campechanea.” 28. A Mexican doesn’t “lend you some money”…he “loosens you some varo” (te afloja un varo). 29. A Mexican isn’t “careless”…he does things “the pushing way” (hace las cosas al aventón). 30. A Mexican doesn’t “ask for favors”…he “asks for strikes” (pide paros). 31. A Mexican doesn’t “make a scene”…he “makes a Pancho” (hace un Pancho). 32. A Mexican isn’t “untidy”…he is “fodongo.” 33. A Mexican isn’t a “bully”…he’s a “gandalla.” 34. A Mexican doesn’t punch you…he “unleashes a big momma on you” (te suelta un madrazo). 35. A Mexican doesn’t “take a nap”..he “goes into a little eyelash or into a baby coyote” (se echa una pestañita o un coyotito). 36. A mexican isn’t “having a bad time”… his “train is carrying him” (and he probably has no idea where he’s gonna get down). 37. A Mexican doesn’t “take advantage of you”…he “eats your groceries” (te come el mandado). 38. A Mexican isn’t “unbearable”…he “bleeds copiously” (es bien sangrón). 39. A Mexican doesn’t “share”…he “wears Puebla F.C.’s jersey” (se pone la del Puebla). 40. A Mexican doesn’t “fail”…he “explodes like a green bean” (truena como ejote). 41. A Mexican doesn’t “make up stories”…he “throws a mussel at you” (te avienta un choro). 42. A Mexican doesn’t “avoid responsibilities”…he “makes it mother worthy” (le vale madre). 43. A Mexican doesn’t “receive an allowance”…he “gets his Sunday” (just on Sundays though). 44. A Mexican doesn’t “hit you where it hurts”…he “hits you in the tower or, if available, in your mother” (te da en la torre o en tu madre). 45. And a Mexican doesn’t just “die”…he “sucks lighthouses” (chupa faros)
