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My spanish teacher in HS was originally from Brazil. He had a story from when he first started travelling abroad, and he found himself in France for a number of months. He presented himself to people he met with a pre-memorized paragraph.
Hello, my name is {name} and I'm trying to learn your language. At this time this is all that I have mastered, but I'm expanding my skills every day.
And each day he would learn something new to add to his introduction. After a while that first paragraph was upwards of 4 minutes long.
When I worked in the Hotel Industry (in the balt/wash area) I wound up using my spanish a lot more frequently, but I typically reserved it for when I was joking around with clients. I found that relaying instructions/orders to people in their native tongue usually didn't go over too well, unless they were trying to play the 'No Hablo Ingles' game with me...
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I'm married now, so the only thing in my house that pulls out now is the couch. 
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