He raised his bottle of Bud Light high in the air and yelled “Salud!” before barking loudly like a happily demented dog. Clearly, our new amigo had already finished off quite a few cold ones. He didn’t know more than a few words of our language either, so it took us a minute to figure out that he wanted to buy our first beer. “You buy us dos cervezas?” shouted my friend, as she repeatedly poked her finger in his direction, then ours. He grinned enthusiastically and nodded his head yes, nearly falling off his barstool. Our beers arrived and we continued to embarrass ourselves by shouting out random, unrelated Spanish words and phrases we kind of knew, eventually coming up with, “Cinco de Mayo!” On that, he lifted his beer again and slurred a few sentences in Spanish that I’m going to guess meant something like, “Hey, I’ll be even more bombed on May 5 than I am right now, and most likely so will you!/OrangeTV, Get Out! North Idaho. More here

Question: How well can you speak Spanish? And/or: Do you celebrate Cinco de Mayo?