Monday, April 21, 2008

How to live in Japan for -5 buck a day!

So a gaijin walks into a bagel shop . "hot kohee " he says .

The bill comes out to be 500 yen, but as he is from Seattle he pays without question .

Ten minutes later the waitress comes out with a plate of hot curry .

The slightly confused gaijin, explains that he wanted "Kohee" not "Kuri".

The waitress apologies profusely and delivers the the originally ordered coffee.

To make things better , when she takes the curry back she gives him his 1000 yen and refuses to accept the 500y change !

Now, I'm no mathologist, but if i buy something for 5 bucks, pay with a ten i should get 5 bucks change. Now if i return said item, i should get 5 bucks, not my original tenner.

I'm considering buying a house or car or something and see if i can supplement my income a bit...

1 comment:

Julie Watts said...

Considering the math you refer to above, I wonder if the contractors for the fancy wood toilet on your previous post actually got paid 40,000,000!