I *will* learn German, I swear....

So tonight we went out for dinner. The cheap pizza place over the road was, apparently, not doing pizza. Because they're closing in a couple of weeks. ... Go figure. Maybe they're closing because they are a pizza place who don't do pizza. Who knows. Anyway, we wandered around the corner to the Italian restaurant, which was only slightly more expensive, but warm and inviting. We stumbled through "Table for 2" "Sure, wherever you like" in my Bad German[0] and their Bad English, and made it through ordering ("Spaghetti Carbonara" is the same everywhere, I think), and then I heard the waitress shouting at someone in Russian out the back. Things got a lot easier from there.

This sort of thing *must* happen to other people, right?

[0] Oh, there are many things to giggle about in German ("Einfahrt!"), and this is one. There are neighbourhoods all over called "Bad" whatever. Apparently it means "Bath", so I guess it's for natural springs, or whatever. But in Frankfurt, "Bad Homburg" caused us great amusement.