27-05-2021, 06:30 PM
I may be drifting off topic John but your tale puts me in mind of a business trip to Japan a couple of years back. Rather than use the hotel breakfast buffet I used to pop into a local department store on the way home each evening and buy fruit juice, yoghurt and croissants which I could munch in bed in the morning (the jet lag is a killer). On one occasion my total was 2 or 3 yen short of a note so I waved it off and set off back to the hotel. A hundred yards down the street a flustered shop assistant caught up with me, bowed and apologetically handed me my change totalling no more than a couple of pence. It was quite unthinkable to her that I should leave the shop without my change...