At least I feel bad about it

When I don't speak the right language (e.g., Hungarian), sometimes other languages come out. I've been saying da instead of yes, even though Russian is not at all related to Hungarian and it's been 20+ years since the Russians were making non-Russians learn it (and yes is one of the four Hungarian words I know). I've also taken to asking for ein ticket, since some people here (myself not included) speak German. If the conversation gets confusing, I sometimes replace ok with vale (Spanish) for no good reason whatsoever. Conversations don't get confusing that often, though, because most people here speak English. I get so holier-than-thou annoyed with the English-speaking tourists in most other places who can't be bothered to learn even a few words of whatever the right language is. If I were staying here longer or if I had any affinity whatsoever for learning languages or if English weren't sp prevalent, I would make an effort to learn. Honest. But for five days I'm really not even trying. I'm sorry, Hungary.

In other news, it was Day 2 of public harmonicizing. This time I sat on a bench, with people around. Not any kind of main square or anything, but there were people. They all ignored me. I wasn't expecting applause, or a crowd to gather or anything, but still I guess I was sort of surprised by the totality of their indifference. At least I didn't get booed.