My ex girlfriend could literally see Mexico from her bedroom window as a kid. One night when we were at a restaurant and we heard a manager yell at a waitress in Spanish. My girlfriend was then like “Oh, he seems pissed…”
I asked how she knew that and she said “Didn’t you hear him?” I was like “Yeah, but it was in Spanish…” and she said “But you didn’t understand it?”
Here I am thinking I missed out on hearing some extremely basic Spanish so I asked her, “What did he say, exactly?” My girlfriend responds “He said ‘Get off your cell phone, you know the rules and this is the last time I’m going to tell you.'”
I looked at my girlfriend in awe and said “Wait, do you speak Spanish?” to which she said “No, but I understand it… duh…”
It was then I had to explain to her that some idiot like me from the midwest couldn’t possibly have been expected to understand something like that. She had no idea.
