On taxis and/ accents
I like to talk to my Uber/Lyft/ taxi drivers. They do not seem to mind. When we go over rough speed bumps going back to my apartment in the parking lot, I sometimes mention a relative was jokingly nicknamed Speedbump by his buddies after falling asleep in a driveway and being run over by a car driven by a friend. He was okay. I do not think he was even really hurt.
On accents
One relative’s friend who is ethnically Indian but raised in the US and had no foreign ‘accent. At a bar one night, he started imitating heavy Indian accents. I thought it ‘was funny.
I do not care about accents if I can understand people.
My Philippina phone operators for taxi service have light accents, but I usually understand them clearly.
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