Secret linguist
24-year-old Reddit user ripterrex had to deal with the nerve-wracking situation of meeting his partner’s family for the first time. He is white and his girlfriend is Latinx, which made him even more apprehensive. It so happened that his partner’s family weren’t exactly polite – switching to Spanish during the meal to complain that he was white and say other mean things about him.
Amusingly, his adopted mother was Mexican so he actually spoke Spanish. He could understand everything they were saying, but decided to keep that to himself so he could find out what else they thought. He wanted to know if he’d done the right thing. Although you could argue he embarrassed the people at the table when they realized, I’m with him, it seems pretty sensible to me, and it serves them right for being so rude.