In today’s story, a man is at a bar with his friends when a girl wrongly assumes he is hitting on her.

Instead of flirting, he uses her line against her.

Let’s see how the story plays out…

Girl assumed I was hitting on her. Gave her the same response she gave me.

This was back in 08 or 09. I was in Quito Ecuador.

I was staying at a hostel and was there for just over 3 weeks, less than a block away there was an Irish pub.

This pub has really good bar food that wasn’t on the menu of a lot of other restaurants in the area so because of that it was a mixed crowd.

Popular with locals and backpackers because the proximity to the hostel.

I’m at the bar with some other guests from the hostel and we are expecting a few more to join us.

Next to me is a bar stool and on the other side of the barstool are two women talking, they’re obviously friends.

He asks if can use a chair, but she claims she doesn’t understand him.

In Spanish I ask the woman closest to me if she is using this empty chair and is it ok if I grab it.

Spanish is not my first language but I can still speak it clearly and confidently and grew up speaking it since I was a kid.

She says to me in Spanish with a smirk on her face that she does not understand me and she does not speak english.

I ask for the chair again in Spanish while motioning to it and she says again that she doesn’t speak English.

The girl thought he was hitting on her.

I ended up getting the chair from a high top table that was behind us that no one was using.

At this point she turns to her friend and I hear them mumble “I don’t know why he’s talking to me heheheehe” and I hear them chuckling to themselves assuming I was hitting on her I guess and she rejected me?

OP pretends not to understand the girl.

Cue petty revenge.

Throughout the evening I know she heard me conversing in Spanish with the bartender so by this time she knew I definitely spoke Spanish.

The napkin dispenser is directly in front of me and she asks me in Spanish if I can hand it to her.

I look at her confused and I point to the napkin dispenser, then look back at her and lean in a little as if I didn’t hear what she said.

OP uses the lady’s line back at her.

She again says that she needs napkins and if I can hand her the napkin dispenser (all in Spanish).

I look at the dispenser and then her and very clearly I say “lo siento, no hablo inglés” (I’m sorry I don’t speak English)

She gives me shocked pikachu face and she turned bright red and then I give her the cold shoulder.

Here’s the moral of the story…

Don’t flatter yourself lady.

I wasn’t hitting on you.

I just wanted the bar stool.

Maybe she was trying to flirt with him by pretending to not understand him? I love that he used her exact words back at her.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted…

This reader was confused but seems to have it right.

Another reader shared a story about kids speaking Spanish.

This person found the story funny.

Here’s the perspective of someone living in Ecuador.

This person loved the story.

Another person hypothesized about why the woman thought he was hitting on her.

Hopefully she finally understood that he wasn’t hitting on her.

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