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...When the friendly Mospeng-kun detects a person nearby, it utters a high-pitched onegai shimasu and offers up a pack of tissues.
Neo-Rio wrote:It's a bit slow.
Oh, the fun you could have with a small army of these robots going haywire.
Kuang_Grade wrote:On one of my first trips to Japan, I had a similar experience as Charles...I was in Shinjuku and I saw someone handing out tissues. While I normally didn't take them, at that moment, I was in actual need of a tissue and thought to myself, 'hey Japan is great, isn't it?'. But then the person refused to give me a packet. So I stood there and gestured for a packet and after the 3rd time, the young man sighed and handed one to me. I had thought that I was being discriminated against and I wasn't going to put up with that. But as I was telling this story to a friend that afternoon, I showed the packet to my friend and he said the ad on the packet was for gynecology clinic.So it turns out it was probably my gender was the determining factor in the person's reluctance in giving me the packet.
Charles wrote:Well they all have some excuse like that. I remember being denied a packet in Akihabara, the guy told me they were for nihonjin only. A few feet away someone else was handing out the same packets, and I received one. They were advertising a phone sex chat line. I guess the hander-outer presumed the chat line didn't want foreigners, as everyone knows foreigners can't speak Japanese.
gboothe wrote:That's weird Charles. I have never had that happen. If they see a FJ they may not offer one right off (except GG who they immedately recognize as a sucker and offer her the whole box), if you hold out your hand they will give you one forthwith.
amdg wrote:However, quite by accident I discovered the way to always get the tissues without fail - just wear a hayfever mask.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Any gaijin that does that should be shot ... repeatedly.
amdg wrote:Obviously not a hayfever sufferer, are you? There are some days I'd almost prefer to be shot than to have my paranasal sinuses exploding.
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