Call me conversational

Last night when I was waiting for my dinner at a local jiaozi place, some old guy just started talking to me. Although his accent was ever so hard to understand, we still had a long conversation about China, America, and then even the Olympics. He really likes the American swimmer Michael Phelps. Every now and then he would start speaking in Sichuanhua and I would say, "Wo mei ting dong Sichuanhua." He would laugh and then talk in Putonghua again. In the conversation, I would often ask him to slow down - "man yi dian." It was a fun time for sure and reminded me how much I've learned here in China - Zhongguo.