Speak Arabic!!!

On my way to language today I flagged an Amjad and then had some issues. I only speak in Arabic to drivers b/c the majority of them only speak Arabic and I don't want to seem like the 'typical American' who expects everyone to speak their language. The entire following conversation took place in Arabic.

I tell him where I want to go and he says 'speak Arabic'. So I repeated what I said and he says 'I don't know English' and I said 'But do you know Arabic? I know English but right now I'm speaking in Arabic to you'. And he looked at me and said 'That's not Arabic, you're speaking English'. So then, in English, I repeated everything that we had just said and threw in a few extra things just to throw him off, then looked at him and, in Arabic, said 'that was English. This is Arabic and I want to go to Riyadh'. I guess that was all it took b/c I made it to language!