Mexicans love me...

...when I try to order shit from them in Spanish.

I've been buying Mexican popsicles ("paletas") from the street vendors with the little ice cream carts, and they teach me little phrases like "Quando?" ('how much?') and "Tenge un buen dia!" ('have a good day!').

I think they are used to stumbling through English badly, so they are glad someone is trying to speak Spanish with them, and then they can be very nicely magnanimous by helping to improve my Spanish, which is probably a wish fulfllment thing for them where they wish they had someone to nicely help them improve their English.