Moscow, Russia
The other day I negotiated the metro to get a train ticket to St Petersburg. The old bag behind the counter couldnt speak a word of english and my russian is still pretty non existant. A babushka came out of the office and was interpreting for me. Her english was pretty bad but seemed to just do the job. I said "I want a ticket to St Petersburg on Sat night, plastkart." They produced a calendar and wanted a date. It looked like Sat was the 10th so I said the 10th...