Me and numbers don't get along. Dealing with money in Japan is hard for me.
If the cashier is especially fast and there's a long line behind me, FOGET IT. I go into Pressure Out Overload. I'm not ashamed to hold a handful of coins out and let the cashier pick them for me.
I usually come home with a whole bunch of coins, but surprisingly these are all I brought back this time. I did good, hah!
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I did the same thing when we went to Japan, hold out my hand! LOL
That’s me too! One time at the train station I went to buy something at the kiosk on the platform and I panicked because there were people behind me and so I opened my palm with the coins and the clerk was not very nice and wouldn’t help me out (I think she thought I was from Japan and then I said something in English, then she realized I was a Gaijin in need of help. LOL But she looked upset. Oh well...
Izsmom
LOL, Mich . . . faster that way yah!
Izsmom, I try to speak English right away to kinda identify myself . . . and . . . I no like them think I'm one of those rude Chinese tourists. I think having to deal with some unhappy customer-service person is an unpleasant experience and although I try to not let things like that bother me, in truth it does.
I always get messed up when the cashier says the amount of change and I don’t get to see the amount on the register
I always say, "sumimasen, Hawaii kara..." then I ask whatever in English. They seem to love Hawaii people and forgive almost anything :). Once I didn't and this old lady said something about "baka" LOL. I dunno Japanese, just enough to understand "baka!"
v
My Dad used to collect coins while on his buying trips for Wigwam to "The Orient". Remember when we called it that? Later I guess it became politically incorrect. I member those coins with the round holes in the middle. I wondered if it was cheaper to make a coin that way because they were using less metal. May have been during War time to save metal also.
Thanks everyone for your kind words on winning the give away. Thanks Jalna for your generosity.
Keep the 5 yen piece in your wallet! Good luck - that is what this Japanese tourist told me when she gave me the coin.
Kat, I'm very visual like that too.
LOL, V. So rude that lady.
Mark, I vaguely remember "the Orient".
Chet, you're very welcome!
Aunty, I will!! Thanks!
Last year when I went to Japan and PI I had two different coin pouches. I’m usually ok with knowing which coin is which but going to 2 different countries at the same time made me a bit crazy especially since I tried to get rid of all my coins before I leave the place. One time in the PI the lady was nice and took my “coin bag” (not pouch) and gave me peso bills for the whole thing!
LOL Susan, both you and the lady scored!
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