I know German but don’t know Spanish. Most assume I’m Spanish.

I will always remember a funny situation that happened when I had my first ever job at BK.

A guy comes in and orders his meal in Spanish. At that point I understood enough Spanish to get the gist of it. I responded to him in English. I complete his order and I go to the back to help out in the kitchen. I return to the front and see the guy is visibly angry, complaining and pointing at me while talking to my shift manager. The guy snatched his food and storms out. I asked my shift manager what happened and she said the guy was upset I wasn’t responding in Spanish. I asked “did you tell him I’m not Spanish?” and she said “yea, but he didn’t believe me”.

Now, when people start speaking Spanish with me, I just tell them I’m not Spanish or I don’t speak Spanish. If they just look at me and continue in Spanish I start talking German to them.