Today a taxi driver asked me if I spoke any Spanish.

I answered:

Dos Palabras

Which loosely means “couple words.”

The taxi driver started laughing uncontrollably.  When he finally stopped, he started to explain what was so funny.

I had made a Spanish joke unintentionally.

You see… it literally means “two words.”

And of course, in saying it… I had demonstrated knowing exactly two words in Spanish.

It was interesting to see an example of Costa Rican humor and what at least one Costa Rican found to be extremely funny.

-James D. Brausch