david always says "no, i'm ok" or "no, i'm good" instead of no thank you.
i do it too sometimes.
in the middle east some of our communication with people was pretty hysterical.
we were endlessly asked by taxi drivers etc if we wanted to go to their shop, their house, their favorite place, on and on...and he would reply something like "no, i'm good".
and they would reply "yes sir, yes, you are good, but do you want to go to my shop?"
i laughed so hard every time.
i tried writing it down after one particularly funny interaction while in a taxi, and this is how it came scribbled out....equally as difficult to translate.

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I used to confuse Mexicans all the time by literally translating "no thank you"... they'd be like "So...yes or no?"
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