My first coffee over here felt like a disaster, but it worked. I ordered a cappuccino ‘cos that what both he and I understood. This was at a “bar” where mostly locals where. I found out later that ordering a coffee with milk in the afternoon is just wrong and would scream tourist. Oh well. The other part was that I didn’t have change and couldn’t apologise for that. I spent 5 minutes searching through my phrase book for the term “sorry”. By then it was too late.