Wow... it's odd when you feel foreign not more than 10 minutes away from your own house...
So I was walking home from work and a couple guys were walking behind me. Didn't pay it much mind until I was trying to cross one of the Beltway on-ramps and one of them started talking to me in Spanish trying to ask me something about Langley Park (those were the only two words I caught). After the few seconds it took me to grasp what they were asking me about Langley Park, how to get there, I told them it was way down the road and pointed him in the right direction. The guy kept repeating his question, though, so I got confused and tried to figure out what else he needed to know. After a bit he says "bus" amongst whatever else he said, so it clicks and I realize they're trying to take the bus there. So I tell them to take the C2 or C4 down University and it should take them to Langley Park. I must've had them so frustrated because I was trying to rack (wrack? sp?) my brain to remember even one word from Spanish that would help me figure out what they were saying, and couldn't do it. So what could've been a 20 second conversation took probably around 5-6 minutes. He probably called me an idiot honky 20 different ways in that time, simply out of frustration... I wouldn'tve blamed him if he had, either.
So I was walking home from work and a couple guys were walking behind me. Didn't pay it much mind until I was trying to cross one of the Beltway on-ramps and one of them started talking to me in Spanish trying to ask me something about Langley Park (those were the only two words I caught). After the few seconds it took me to grasp what they were asking me about Langley Park, how to get there, I told them it was way down the road and pointed him in the right direction. The guy kept repeating his question, though, so I got confused and tried to figure out what else he needed to know. After a bit he says "bus" amongst whatever else he said, so it clicks and I realize they're trying to take the bus there. So I tell them to take the C2 or C4 down University and it should take them to Langley Park. I must've had them so frustrated because I was trying to rack (wrack? sp?) my brain to remember even one word from Spanish that would help me figure out what they were saying, and couldn't do it. So what could've been a 20 second conversation took probably around 5-6 minutes. He probably called me an idiot honky 20 different ways in that time, simply out of frustration... I wouldn'tve blamed him if he had, either.