Last week at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC (for those of you from Rio Linda, Washington DC is part of the United States (sort of)), I and a guy next to me were trying to buy a cup of coffee from at the Air and Space food court. The lady behind at the register could not understand what we were saying and both of our Spanish sucked. He asked LOUDLY if somebody behind the counter could speak ENGLISH.
I said, “This is very frustrating.” He said, “I know. Last time I was here was 4 years ago and I could communicate in English in DC and most of the Country as well as a I can do at home, but no more.”
I said, “where are you from.” He said, “Bangalore”. For those of you in Rio Linda that is NOT part of the USA.
There's a much better (bigger, cleaner, cheaper, more variety) food court in the Ronald Reagan building on the other side of the Mall across from the A&SM.