Losing Patience

I work for an optometrist here in Las Vegas. www.drsteed.com I also served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to Quito, Ecuador. In Ecuador they speak spanish...therefore I speak spanish. However I will admit that I don't speak very well because I am lazy and I don't practice. It's not that big of a deal to me because I live in the states and the majority (99%) of the people I interact with on a daily basis speak english (ingles). I do try and accomodate our wonderful spanish speaking patients and help them in their native tongue when they need it. Most of the time they are very appreciative of me and my struggle. The other day I was helping this lady that didn't speak a lick of english and she needed me to talk to her husband to get the credit card information. I got on the phone with him and he started spittin' out numbers at me in spanish and in my broken spanish I asked him to please slow down and repeat it. He then said to me (in english mind you) "You don't speak spanish very good do you" and that time I told him to "hold on" and I handed the phone to my spanish speaking co-worker. What I wanted to say to this man was "F" you!! You live in my country where we speak english, not spanish!! If you and your family are going to live in my country learn MY LANGUAGE. Seriously it pisses me the hell off. I was trying to help him and his wife!!!! Then he was a freakin' jerk to me. Go to hell!!! Ok...I feel better. Seriously though...y'all wonder why the majority of american citizens lose patience with you.