There are few different levels of spanish...

There's survival spanish, work spanish and grocery store spanish.

Survival spanish is pretty easy, Donde esta cervecaria?...Donde esta el bano?...Un cerveca por favor...Donde esta el hospital?

Then there is work spanish, this is made easier by my co-workers english abilities. Where is el bano? Where is the cafe machine? Estamos en al horno con papas.
Notice because my co-works speak such good english I can slide in the spanish words or phrase at random.

The there is grocery store spanish, where I'm guessing they get the least amount of turists and there for don't ever really require an english skills or know how to deal with me when I look at them like I'm nuts. Today I tested the grocery store again...all I wanted was some bare essentials bread, ham for sandwiches, O.J. and a six pack of beer (Quilmes). I headed over there and all was going well...I grabbed a little blue plastic crate thing with a handle and started my shopping adventure...

First stop, bread! Hmm...there are many kinds of bread...this is much more dificult than i thought the bread bags have all kids of words I've never seen before. Crap! I grabbed what seemed to be a multigrain wheat bread...looks great and I could use some grains at this point.

Next stop, ham for sandwiches...I get side tracked by the banana section, I don't know way but bananas sound great. I've probably got scurvy at this point so I could use some fruit. I grab a thing of 4 bananas. On to the ham...wait theres some O.J. but it's in the cold cheese section across form the ham...it says 100% something so it must be good. I grab that...now the ham...there are about 80 different types of ham and I don't understand anything on there other than some have Jamon and others have Cerdo...I grab the ham that says El Familiar, because well it's familiar.

Alright, I want to grab a few beers to have at the joint. Quilmes preferably...well there is definitley a beer isle and there are litres of beer all over the place and then there are the cans and then the small bottles. However, none of these are package i'm looking all over for a 6 pack. So, I grab six individual bottles of quilmes. I think that is weird.

Alright, lets check out...I stand in the "Caja Express" (i think that was it) line, it says something about a maximum of 15 items...so i'm good.

Well, I've been here before so I know the first question is going to be cash or charge...so the girl says something and i wave my cash at her. She looks at me like I'm nuts, but just starts ringing up my items...the individual beer bottles seem to cause a small issue as they start rolling all over the place...then the bananas...she looks at me and says something...i have no idea, i didn't even get one word out of that sentence. I say "Lo siento, no entiendo" and i look at the women behind me and shrug my shoulders and smile. the girl is not happy...she says some to me again...no idea what she just said and she's pointing at the bananas and then the back of the store...i'm guessing I had to do something with the bananas first...so i just say "no problemo, no necessito" she seems to be ok with this and puts the bananas off to the side. I'm checking out the numbers on the machine and notice that my bill is right around 42 pesos, so I hand her 50...easy enough right? No, the girl looks at me and says something else...i didn't understand a word, so i smile and say "No entiendo" and then i look at the lady behind me and smile....she looks at the girl at the checkout shrugs her shoulders and says "No entiende" with that the girl waves her had at me in a nevermind kind of fashion and hands me my change.

I'm just glad the whole thing is over with and I get out of there ASAP! Phew another event I was able to get through...but geez I don't know jack in spanish.