A little backstory; six or seven years ago, I took two years of Spanish as a fine arts credit, for high school. I loved it, but my Spanish is broken at best. Sometimes, Hispanic customers will come in and I default to English. They reply back in Spanish and i will reply in English, usually one word or two word responses (thank you!, have a nice night!, etc.).

I do know very little Spanish, which is usually Hola or Como te puedo ayudar, but it quickly dissolved into my barely being able to conversation, so I feel more comfortable speaking out in my native tongue. 

They aren’t ever angry at me and usually do leave with a smile and good attitude, but I feel like I might be kind of an asshole because I didn’t learn as much Spanish as I could have and choose to not embarrass myself. 