A Surprising Grocery Store Encounter

I usually do my grocery shopping at the large grocery store inside the local Aeon shopping center. On a recent shopping trip, I had finished shopping, had packed up my food, and was putting away my cart, when a man walked up to me and started talking in a language I didn’t recognize. In Japanese, I said, I’m sorry, I don’t understand. He switched to English, and said, I thought you were from Finland. That surprised me! He talked to me about five minutes, telling me where he had visited in the United States. I was really so surprised, I don’t know if I said much of anything. Then, he went on with his shopping, and I walked home with my food, wondering why he thought I was from Finland.