Last week I received a few checks in the mail that I had to deposit into my checking account and thought that I would stop by my local Chase bank and make the deposit.

Last year I switched banks from Washington Mutual to Chase. The reason I changed was because every time I would go into one of Wash Mutual's branches I felt like I was an outsider instead of feeling like I was a customer. Let's face it, if the institution that takes care of your money doesn't treat you right, then it's time to leave that institution.

So, after work that night I drove through the traffic mess we call I-225 and went to my local Chase bank in Green Valley Ranch. I parked in the parking lot of the bank and turned off my car and began to endorse my checks. By the time I endorsed my checks, this truck had pulled up along side my car so close, that I could not open my door. I put my window down and asked the guy to move his car so that I could get out of my car, as it was quite evident that he parked way over that parking space line, and he said something to me in Spanish and just walked away. Needless to say, I was not happy to have to crawl over my stick shift to go out the passenger door.

I then went into the bank and waited in line like everyone else, while I was noticing that all the signage in the bank was in Spanish. I reached for a deposit slip and it was all in Spanish. I pulled deposit slips from 2 other bins and they were all in Spanish as well. By this time I was quite upset that NOTHING was in English. I finally got to the teller and asked what do these signs say, and she didn't even look up and pointed to one sign and said this one says "blah blah blah" and then pointed to another one and said "blah blah blah", then handed me a deposit slip that was in English and then took my checks and gave me a receipt.

I am now thinking of changing banks again. I cannot believe that in the United States, that an American bank that deals with the American banking system would have everything in Spanish. It would appear that they are completely catering to all the illegal people we have from south of our border, in our city. Why did they not have anything in English? Please correct me if I am wrong, the native language of the United States is still English?

Don't think that I am a bigot, but speaking English is an American thing which makes our country unique. If you live in our country please speak and read our American language. Please don't give me the political correctness speach of how we are a melting pot of immigrants, as I will tell you that my grandparents came from Europe, but they LEARNED how to speak and read English, and people didn't cater to them back then.

How would you feel, if you went into a bank to transact business and you couldn't understand any sign in the building as it was written in a foreign language?

Give me a break, I'm an American, and I feel like an outsider in my own country. Have we as Americans given up to much, that speaking and reading our native language is almost gone? What a shame.