Languages and God

The best stories one can hear in an everyday casual settings. So it happened yesterday during a bus into London. An old lady, sitting in the first row behind the driver said in fine formal English "So I hear you speak several languages." "yes, nine", responded the driver. "That is a favour from God. It has nothing to do with intelligence", he added and kept driving. After a few minutes of silence the lady continued saying: "However, it is great. I used to do French and Spanish in school. Also, I did German, but I was rather bad at it." And with that the conversation concluded until a short while later when the old lady said that she had to catch a bus at Swiss Cottage and the driver offered to stop there for her, which she gratefully accepted.