We are standing in the metro in Barcelona after a long day filled with cultural excursions. My 14-year-old son says that the nice thing about holidaying abroad is that they cannot understand us. “You can just say anything to them and they won’t notice anything! Just look.” He nods to the man sitting diagonally across from him on the bench and says: “Loser!”
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