Fun Japanese Facts 2
- Want to be a supermodel ? Well you can get the "Model Credit Card" and be on your way.
- Like Aubrey Hepburn ? Well get the Aubrey Hepburn credit card.
- Want to lose weight fast ? Go on the "Micro Diet", just replace two meals with a drink, and you too, can compete in the micro-diet beauty pageant / weight loss Olympics.
- Need some non-prescription medicine, then go to "Drug-Eleven", It is the 24hr Convenience Drug store. Sort of like Priceline in Aus.
- Big chain stores (as they call them here) like Myer, or Dick Smith, play their shop anthem, it is either like some footy song, or a wiggles song. Either way, it is sung by people with high pitched voices, and kind of annoys you in a very short period of time. And shopping centers have their own anthems too. There is a store called , Yamada Denki (Yamada Electrical) and its theme song uses the tune from the old arcade game "Bubble Bobble".
- When you ask a shop, if they have something, that seems obvious to you, and they do not have it, when you ask them "why ?" they seem shocked, that I could ask such a question. e.g.. There is a takoyaki shop that sells takoyaki, okonomiyaki and noodles. You can get them by themselves, or takoyaki and noodles, or okonomiyaki and noodles, but not takoyaki and okonomiyaki, when I asked why the did not sell that combination, the guy looked at me with an expression of "you as so rude, how dare you insult my shop by asking why."
