My first visit to a Subway store

My wife and I went to the US some years ago to visit the south coast. After a long flight we landed in Los Angeles and were not only tired but also hungry. So we tried to find the nearest place from to our hotel, where we could get something to eat. And that was a small Subway store.

We had never had been in a Subway store before (although they have stores in Germany), and so it was a completely new experience for us to choose every single ingredient of our sandwich on our own. After a short period of hesitation we queued up, and as it was when it became our turn the fight began:

This guy across the counter had a terrible accent; it was also very noisy inside this store and we were really tired. In addition there were people behind us who didn't made give the impression of being very patient. So I tried to dig out all those the English food names I remembered/could remember from school, but this guy obviously couldn't understand a single word. Conversely he threw questions at me which sounded more like Chinese than English (it well may have been) to me in this embarrassing and stressful situation.

The whole story ended up in me pointing at things, muttering "one of this" and "nothing of that" and being completely unaware of what the hell I was ordering there.

I felt so ashamed and swore in this store to improve my English (here I am trying to do exactly that).  (you have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of - your written English is probably better than 90% of Americans!)
But you know what: This sandwich was delicious! No idea what was in it, but the two of us savoured it as though it had been were the first sandwich we ever ate/had ever eaten :-)

hervorragend!