Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : For background I'm from the US, look like a tourist and I've taken around 6 years of Spanish through my schooling and am moderately fluent. I've been in Mexico for a week and have conversed with the locals and gotten around well enough with my knowledge of the language. Usually I can just say "No gracias" to anyone peddling items and they'll go away, but today a guy came up to me asking for food and wouldn't go away. I had seen him approaching me without anything to sell so I knew he was a beggar and for some reason I pretended not to understand him. He kept talking to me and despite knowing everything he was saying I just kept saying, "no hablo Espanol" until I gave up and gave him money to go away. 

I kinda feel like a dick pretending not to understand him despite speaking the language, especially since he was just hungry. 

AITA for pretending not to speak Spanish?