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.
4 comments:
Strange but interesting!!
Hello Pamela: That is strange, maybe he just needed a contact with someone that was kind, he may have been a little lonely at the time, I have had people stop and talk just for no reason, makes my day. some people are into themselves and being standoffish. You were very kind to talk to him.
Catherine
That's funny! And kind of fun, too. He probably saw a non-Asian face and was happy to see someone he thought might be from "home."
When a stranger suddenly comes up and starts talking, it can be a bit too sudden, even alarming. I often feel confused and lost for words, so I understand how you must have felt.
What I don't get from your story is whether the man was Japanese or a foreigner. Do you think he was a Finn and spoke in Finnish? Or a Japanese man who wanted to practice his Finnish?
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