juanida wrote on Thu Sep 3, 2020 12:14am:
Don't you find that it is often the case that even though you speak good or fluent Spanish, there are certain people who look at your 'foreign' face rather than listen to what you are asking and pre-decide they don't understand a word of what you are saying? It is irritating but it happens ...
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...constantly! Just because he is with me, my Spanish husband when asking for something in a shop gets a reply in English which he can't make head nor tail of!
I have never had this happen to me, first time ever in the Oria pharmacy, as I said normally the staff - remembered her name LOLA - still cannot remember the mans name are FANTASTIC, but to take advantage during COVID is not on. The BIGGEST problem for us is our Spanish bank closed down during the lockdown, we drove to Vera and learned my new debit card had been blocked for security reasons, we could not get anyone to answer the phone at the bank, intended to be in Oria for 3 weeks only and did not bring any other cards with us, due to car issues we got locked down, In the end we had to get a friend to post our medication to us to avoid the Euro 120 a month.