When we asked the guy we bought our car from where he got it fixed, he bragged about his "shade tree" mecánico. He and his family were here on a year sabbatical from his university job where he taught – what else? – Spanish. Thank goodness Old Smokey didn't need any fixing for quite some time because our Spanish wasn't good enough for a "shade tree" anything. We couldn't even say "shade tree" in Spanish. We couldn't even say shade or tree without looking it up. We could count to ten… yeah, that was helpful.
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