Language Soup and Fishing Without Death

But here, when it came time to add Spanish to the mix, my brain seems to have gone kaput. At the grocery store, I went to say thank you and what came out was: "Danke sch— no, nein, non, merci, no, scheisse, I mean gracias. Crap. Gracias! Sorry. Es tut mir ... Lo siento. I meant gracias."