My new (Spanish) greeting at work...

...at the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now, to greet any (male) (Guatemalan) coworker:

"Hola, Senor Amigo!"

. . .

They seem to be quite amused by that, particularly the (younger) (good-natured) (Guatemalan) coworker, who whenever I'm around seems to perk up in a good-natured way that is completely evident on his face, like he's just waiting there and wondering, "What the f*ck is this guy going to say and do next."

Really, it would be like some (Spanish-speaker) coming up to me and saying in (English), "Hello, Mr. Friend!".

The restaurant seems legit with its hiring and payment practices, but still, you wonder if some of them have used stolen social security numbers to gain employment, and it's like they traveled north by foot and on train and crossed the border with coyotes and got left in the desert, and then they finally get to the area where they have friends and family and connections, and suddenly there's this (middle-aged) (white) guy with (crazy) (non-existent) (Spanish) who always insists on trying to talk to them in his (crazy) (Spanish), and he's always like, "Hello, Mr. Friend!".

That must be crazy as f*ck for them.