MUNICH — Junior Andrew Banster reported on Saturday that his Oktoberfest excursion hit a snag when he ran into a non-English speaker.

Banster, who in his two months studying abroad in Copenhagen had never encountered someone whose English was less than proficient, was initially unsure how to proceed after asking the man for a picture.

“I kept asking him if he would take a picture of me and my boys in lederhosen,” said Banster.

Banster reported that the man, who was “grandpa old,” kept giving him confused looks and saying something that sounded like “guttural noises.”

Banster continued to say that he went out of his way to try and communicate with the non-English speaker.

“I tried speaking to him in Spanish, but apparently he didn’t habla that either,” said Banster.

The confusion finally resolved itself when the non-English speaker excused himself and Banster asked one of several hundred other study abroad students to take his picture.

“Come on dude, this is America,” added Junior Ryan Fitzpatrick (MSB ’16).